From what I read it was a northeast colonial thing. Wheat was harder to grow than the other grains so they used the corn and rye that would grow more easily. Molasses was basically a waste product from the Rum trade in that old trade triangle if you remember grade school.
reminds me of the sandwiches we’d have on those little pedestal grills at the state park growing up. Mom would start the charcoal, lay out some aluminum foil and start cooking onions and green peppers. Add italian hot sausage links and sear the outside. Before the sausages were fully cooked she’d slice them down the side and open them like a book and lay the open side down on the foil, sear to good brown fully cooking the sausage, then add barbecue sauce and mix in the onions in peppers and cook the works until the sauce was thickened. Slap down a sliced hard roll on top for a bit to warm up right in some sauce on a cleared area on the foil. Then making sure there was some sauce on the roll halves lay down the opened sausage and some saucy peppers and onions. Bbq sauce on italian sausage sounds bizarre but it works!
I don’t know about a sandwich without some of that meat that made the dripping but that sounds wonderfully flavorful. I would sometimes make a small pork roast that is very well seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic powder. When done right the pan drippings are the best part. I would roast the meat with carrots, potatoes, onions, and celery in the pan. They tasted great too but I’d put that roasted drippings on the plate and sop it up with good rye bread. Garlicky!
I want that now.
My wife found a recipe that sounds like this, we are going to try it next week
I just ate a couple of slices right from the toaster with whipped salted butter on top. Not my kind of thing. Of course I'm not really into molasses either. It was edible even though a bit crumbly. I tried it and will finish off the can but I'll never get it again. But I can say I tried it and I generally don't try new things unless they sound appealing. I did find it in with the B&M Beans.It’s mildly or moderately sweet. Goes well warm with butter. A plate of beans and good hot dogs with the brown bread is a comfort food of mine that takes me back to the 70’s growing up. Market 32/price Chopper out by Albany has it near the canned beans iirc. I am not sure if Hannaford’s has it. We don’t have Wegmans so I am no help there.
B&M Plain Brown Bread | 16 Oz. | Canned Beans
B&M Plain Brown Bread found at Hannaford Supermarket. Add to online shopping list or grocery cart for Hannaford To Go.www.hannaford.com
Edit, they have it too!
Well you tried it. I totally get it too, especially if molasses isn’t really a favored flavor.
We had Hamburgers, potato chips and Jello on Saturdays and Steamers (boiled hotdogs), potato chips and Jello on Sundays growing up in the 60's
lol, Jello must have been cheap then,(70’s for me, I was in diapers in the 60’s) we had jello for dessert once or twice a week (dessert certainly wasn’t an every day thing at our house)
Well we were in a pretty good financial position. My father worked in the day and my mother worked part-time as a nurse in the emergency dept at the local hospital from 4 to midnight. She couldn't cook though. Her main dishes were Tuna Casserole and Noodles Almondine, both yuk!!! My father did most of the cooking after dropping my mother off at the hospital. Fried steak, fried porkchops, meatloaf, stuff like that every week. Not complaining though.
Ha! that was similar to an easter tradition in our house. My great aunt was more a grandmother than either of my grandmothers and would come to our house for holidays and bbqs or just to play cards. She baked these small sweet danish like breads with a easter egg in the center. Whoever got the one with a penny in it won a prize. I miss that ole gal. She was a sweetheart.
