| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 1 hr 10 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Inactive: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 45 min |
| Yield: | 3 mini loaves |
Ingredients
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 1/2 cups raisins
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup crushed bran flakes
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Heavily grease and flour the insides of three empty 15-ounce cans. In a medium heatproof mixing bowl, pour the boiling water over the raisins and baking soda. Set aside to cool. In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar and salt. Stir in the bran flake crumbs. Lightly beat together the egg and oil, and stir into the flour mixture. Stir in the cooled raisins and water. Divide the batter evenly among the 3 cans, filling about three-quarters of the way up. Bake on the lowest rack until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool for about 10 minutes and run a knife along the sides of the can to remove. If packing as gifts, just wrap in the can!
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 3 servings |
| Calories | 945 |
| Total Fat | 22 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 187 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 10 g |
| Sugar | 113 g |
| Protein | 13 g |
| Cholesterol | 62 mg |
| Sodium | 929 mg |
Reviews
Make this ALL THE TIME, but as muffins, filling the muffin bays only about half way so they do not make muffin tops. These are so dense and filling you don’t want them too large anyway. One recipe will yield about 2 dozen muffins. No paper liners needed but be sure to spray the tins really well, even over the top and take out of the tins after only 5-6 minutes. Bake about 25 minutes, but check with toothpick. No molasses or brown sugar needed. The brown color comes from the soaked raisins (so you won’t be needing to coat them with flour) and their liquid, which is also included. I add one cup of chopped walnuts to my recipe, and put large nut pieces on top before baking so anyone with nut allergies will be forewarned. They last a long time in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
Made twice first time I didn’t have bran cereal so I used special k – 2nd time I used bran. I liked special k better!! But both are excellent! Also used 1 bread pan one of the times instead of cans – takes way longer to cook in bread pan and almost burns before it’s cooked all the way. Cans were must better or small loaf pans if ya got em! Love this bread! Best brown bread recipe I’ve found! Use WHITE sugar! Bread will turn brown you’ll see!!
nice!
Very easy to make, extremely moist, no problem getting it out of the can because I sprayed the can and then I lined the sides with parchment paper…just slid right out. I would like to get the raisins better spaced throughout the cylinder bread…any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
Confused. No molasses? How did the brown color appear? Would love to make but is it brown sugar and not white sugar to get the color?
The recipe instructions didn’t specify using BPA-free cans to grease and flour to bake in.
If a cook is unsure if the can is BPA-free, line the can sides and bottom withparchment paper, then grease and flour, fill, and bake.
Thank you for the recipe, Trisha!
What changes would I have to make if I omit the raisins. Don’t care for them, but I love brown bread!
I made this with my mom and it turned out perfect.
I like grocery store raisin bread so when I saw this recipe I knew I had to make it. It was so fast and simple. Homemade is always best. Using gold raisins would be good too.
so so good put them in 3 small loft pans very delicious, I didn’t understand the brand part so I crushed it so it would measured one cup but was still good but was wondering if was right or not? could someone tell me if I did it right. thank you
I have been looking for this recipe forever! My grandmother used to make the raisin bread (date bread too :)) in the can and I wanted to make this so many times. Thank you for reintroducing this recipe. It actually brought tears to my eyes. She used to put cream cheese on it and we would eat it with fruit salad in the summer.