Colonial Brown Bread

This is a good recipe especially from a technical aspect – measurements, cook times, ingredients etc. It makes a really nice loaf of bread – soft with a smooth texture, and it’s simple and quick to make. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because it just didn’t taste like what I expected which is probably my problem not the recipes.

Went from Buttermilk to Whole Milk. Great flavour and a little lighter.

Needed a bread for an impromptu dinner so I found this & made 1/2 recipe (1 loaf) to try it. It was a hit for me AND my dinner guests! It stayed moist for days (as long as it lasted anyway!) . One guest went home with most of what was left over! It reminds me of my mother’s brown bread recipe she used to make with raisins & almost always served with baked beans on Saturday. I’ll try adding raisins next time, and there WILL be a next time!

This bread is so quick & easy to make! I shared the recipe on Facebook since it’s winter & it’s n

Fabulous simple brown bread recipe, works every time and kids love it. To make it more of an Irish soda bread, reduce the sugar to 1tsp, but we like it sweet! If you don’t have buttermilk, just use lemon juice or vinegar (measure a tablespoon in a cup measure, fill with milk, repeat x4) 🙂

I have to agree that this recipe calls for too much baking soda. You can taste it, and that shouldn’t be. I’m going to try halving it next time. The good news is there *will* be a next time! I like the recipe enough to try it again. The substitutions I made are I used spelt flour instead of whole wheat, unsweetened vanilla almond milk instead of buttermilk, and Sucanat sugar instead of brown sugar. All of these substitutions worked! The bread rose nicely, and it was moist and yummy… except for that baking soda after taste.

Loved the flexibility and speed of this bread. Needed a dinnertime bread and had forgotten to bake a proper loaf earlier in the day so this was an ideal substitute. Made 1 loaf per recipe – perfect for our chicken dinner (with butter). Made 2nd loaf with flax seed, vanilla, cinnamon and raisins to use for breakfast/healthy kids snack. Both turned out great. Easy to figure out sweet add-ins for breakfast type bread – hoping to find more savory add-ins for dinner bread even though it was good as described with butter.

Easy and delicious – no rising!

Thank you very much for posting this recipe. My only fault with this bread is how addicting it is. It’s good with sweet toppings (like jam) and just as good with savory. Simple to make and delicious to eat–my kind of recipe!

followed recipe; however, used skim milk and lemon juice. Bread was dense, but it had a very odd, almost fishy odor. We didn’t care for it.

This was excellent, especially when warm and fresh. It’s the easiest bread recipe I’ve tried.

This was easy and helped me use up some sour milk without needing to add butter and eggs, which was nice. It cooked well and was very sweet-good for eating by itself, but it doesn’t really go with meals. Also, my husband complained that he could taste the bitter baking soda on the second day 😛

A fantastic bread. Dense and not at all too sweet; this is perfect with some butter and/or jam and a cuppa tea. (The bread is quite tasty on its own, too, without any type of spread.) Definitely not a sandwich bread, but a great bread for breakfast. I followed the recipe exactly and found that I pretty much needed the whole hour to bake the bread. The top gets pretty brown, though, so I did a few knife-tests to make sure I still had to let the middle set (I did). The best part about this recipe is that it was EASY to make the bread–no mixers, no taking butter out of the fridge an hour before to soften, no creaming of anything together. Just throw it all in a bowl and mix it up, then bake! Clean-up was a breeze, too.

I use powdered buttermilk mix (found in the baking aisle), so I always have all the ingredients on hand. This is so fast and so yummy. And it’s whole grain…a healthier option for a starch side at dinnertime. Thank you for the recipe!

I just put this recipe together and it is now in the oven. But I weighed my flour instead of using a measuring cup. I added two more cups of buttermilk to absorb all the dry flour mixture and covered the top of one loaf with brown sugar and the other with raisins and brown sugar. I hope it turns out! I’ll let you know as soon as it is done. My question is, is this supposed to look like a tea bread batter at the end of mixing or a thick wet dough. Mine looked more like a thick wet dough.

This bread is wonderful! I added dried cranberries and chopped walnuts. Everyone loves it in our family toasted with butter.

I was not really impressd with this bread. It was heavy with dry crumb and very little taste. I’m not going to be making it again.

So easy, moist and tasty!

Didn’t like it. Quick and easy, but terrible texture,very heavy.

Fast and easy to prepare, but the family wasn’t crazy about it.

This recipe is so versatile and easy. I make a loaf of bread and also use a small muffin tin. Great for a late morning snack.