Boston Brown Bread Recipe

Forget about banana bread and zuchhini bread

As the story goes Boston Brown Bread gets its name from colonial times. Essentially it's a quick bread, dough comprised of rye, flour, and cornmeal along with molasses. The dough was unceremoniously put in a sack and hung over a pot of beans cooking on the open hearth. Only, that's not the whole story. The recipe actually predates colonial America, dating back to England where they cooked peas in the same way.