Tin Can Bread

[skylark]

OK, I know cans are not made of tin anymore. 

Here is a way to make bread without an oven.  It turns out much like a fruit bread.  It is a moist bread when it comes out of the pressure cooker, but let it stand a while and after an hour or two becomes real bread.

The idea is to make the dough, then spoon it into an old soup can or similar and bake it in a pressure cooker.

This recipe is an attempt to get as much healthy, nutricious stuff in the bread as possible.  You can probably make regular flour bread if you want to, I have never tried regular white bread.

Mix in a bowl with a fork:

1/2 cup whole wheat
1/2 cup rye
1/4 tsp dry yeast
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup warm water

Add:
1/4 tsp flax seed
1 Tbs crushed walnut
2 Tbs raisins
1 Tbs cranberries
2 Tbs rolled oats (oatmeal)
2 Tbs sunflower seeds

Stir it up.
Let rise for an hour undisturbed.

Put about 1/4" of water in the bottom of a pressure cooker.
Put the bottom plate or pan in the cooker. This is whatever your brand of pressure cooker uses to keep stuff off of the bottom of the cooker.
Bring water to boil, then turn off the flame.

Stir the dough mix well, and spoon (or fork) it into a can greased with butter, margarine or oil. Don't cut yourself on the can.
Don't fill the can more than 2/3 full.  The amount above will fill a medium soup can.

Note that some cans with pull off tops have a metal ridge, those are not good, try to get the cans opened up cleanly by a can opener.  Although you can use a pliers to bend the metal ridge flat.

Put the can into the hot pressure cooker.
Close the lid. 
Let it stand for 40 minutes.

Turn the flame on, bring the pressure cooker up to pressure.
Reduce flame and let it simmer for 40 minutes.
After it cools enough to open, remove can.
Let can cool down for 15 minutes or so.
Remove the bread by shaking it a bit.  The bread shrinks as it cools so it comes out easily.
Put the bread where it can cool and air dry.
After an hour or so it will be ready.

[Captain Smollett]

Just curious: what specific role does the can play?

How is this different than what is posted here, where I used a bowl inside the p-cooker?

My cook time was only about 25 minutes, though, not 40.  That was 25 minutes under full pressure.

[skylark]

The can is just to give it a shape, the bread can be baked in any shape pan.  I didn't have any pan that fit in my pressure cooker so I used a can.

I saw on the movie Jean du Sud that Yves Gelinas found a cake pan that fit in his pressure cooker that made a loaf in a ring.  I have been looking for something like that at garage sales but have not found one small enough for my pressure cooker.

More important is the recipe: it has ingredients that are carefully chosen from things that are good for you with good flavor and added health benefits.  If necessary you could eat just this bread for a couple of days and would have adequate nutrition.  Plus it tastes good enough to eat by itself.

I have eaten this recipe of homemade bread (with ingredient variations) for breakfast and lunch on most days for several years.  At home it is baked in an oven.  Now I know it can be made without an oven!

[Zen]

Great!!


...and a good way to reuse those cans, rather than dump them.  ;D

[Lynx]

I would not. Most cans are lined with some sort of stuff that is not healthy to eat. Cooking in a can anymore is not good as well as reusing.

The same with dented cans. It can create problems.

find some small bread pans.

[Zen]

I was going to say something about that, but did not want to open a can of worms  :D

The health food industry uses an inert coating on their food can food stuff, at least health Valley does. This was developed because of the impure stuff that goes on with "tin" cans and food. It is not a generally healthy practice to use cans for cooking or in some cases eating out of, but that is another story. Nor aluminum for that matter. However I did not want to start a what's healthy rant :-)
This is not a health, political, religious forum. It is about Sailing, Boats and the stuff that goes with it.
;)

Of course if one get sick out at sea because of something they have eaten, or prepared, that would seem a reasonable and within bonds topic.


er ahh so where was I... oh yeah like he said

;D

I would not. Most cans are lined with some sort of stuff that is not healthy to eat. Cooking in a can anymore is not good as well as reusing.

The same with dented cans. It can create problems.

find some small bread pans.

[CharlieJ]

Laura uses a small stainless bowl that fits nicely into the pressure cooker. She has a wok ring from a very small wok that sits on the bottom to hold the pan off the cooker bottom.

[TJim]

Also, I do have personal knowledge that Coors uses a clearcoat on the inside of their cans and they use pure mountain spring water rather than Mississippi sewer water for the basic ingredient.  I take no chances with my health...TJim

[CharlieJ]

 ;D ;D

Too bad Coors don't much taste like beer.

And lite beers aren't worth pouring on the ground.

;D ;D

Now if you get a bottle of Shiner Bock!!!!

[TJim]

I haven't tried that one Charlie, send me one and I'll give ya a grade on it!!TJim

[Tim]

Talk about thread highjacking ;) ;D
When I did drink, it was an either or
Coors is what I drank when I was thirsty
A local brew; Red Tail, Sierra Nevada, Red Seal, when I wanted to enjoy a true beer!

[CharlieJ]

wish I could - c'm'on down and I'll buy you one.

Shiner beer- brewed by the Spoetzl Brewery, Shiner Texas since 1909. The German/Czech immigrants decided they wanted a REAL old country beer, so they imported a brewmeister from the old country- one Kosmos Spoetzl.

The brewery has been brewing beer the same way, in the same spot, ever since.

[Zen]

Tin can bread >>>> beer >>>>?   ;D

[TexSail]

Tin can bread >>>> beer >>>>?   ;D

Sounds like the start of a pretty good lunch to me. ;)

[skylark]

Well I ate all of the tin can bread and didn't die yet. Just to celebrate, had a few beers.

[Lost Lake]

Hey!! Another Shiner Bock lover!!! Well here's grog for ya!

I've had a lot of the stuff, even though it's not very accessible up here in the woods of Wisconsin. I first found it in my 'beer of the month club' delivery years ago.... Then I had some when I was in Texas, now the local super market carries it.

It is a great beer!

There are so many great beers, where does one start listing them? But I admit, I also enjoy Coors Lite, Bud Lite, (once drank 72 cans of Bud Lite with a friend in a four hour period.... I passed out on the garage floor, and he crawled home. I think he was behind a beer or two.... Can't believe I lived through it myself.....)

I also enjoy Porters and Stouts, and love wheat beers. Don't care for IPA's at all. I brewed my own for about 6 years and even started kegging it to save time and change carbonation easily, but alas, I think it is much easier to drink one of the thousands of beers that others make for us. There are so many small breweries popping up here and there, it is a great time to love beer!!!!

[Captain Smollett]

When I got married, my best man was heavily into home brewing.  For our rehersal dinner, he supplied EIGHT CASES of home brew.

It was a very fun party.  Everything from lights, ambers and ales to true darks.

I'm of Irish descent, and love Guiness.  How does this Shiner Bock fit in with that?

[CharlieJ]

Lost Lake- we live about 50 miles from Shiner Texas. And my Grandmother was born there- so it's a local brew for us. Only beer Laura really cares for.

John- I don't know, not being a stout drinker. It's a good dark beer in the German tradition- other than that I can't say.

[Grime]

I'm not much of a drinker at all but put a Shiner Bock in front of me and I can't and will not turn it down. 

Totally agree with CharlieJ on this one.

Too bad Coors don't much taste like beer.

And lite beers aren't worth pouring on the ground.



Now if you get a bottle of Shiner Bock!!!!

Edit by Captain Smollett to fix quote tag.

[CapnK]

Bock is a darker beer, but not heavy like a stout is (Guinness).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock

Homebrewing is fun and educational. I used to make several nice classic high-gravity beers, but living on a small boat there really isn't the room nor the climate control to do it well (you could do it, just not as well, IOW).

Although come to think of it, having a 5 gallon carboy fermenting away, with 60 bottles of beer coming from every batch would sure make you popular in the marina... ;D