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    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    This is sort of a cooking question, and it is sort of a MYOG question.

    I have a standard recipe for Boston Brown Bread, and in traditional style, this bread is baked inside ordinary wide steel cans, like for vegetables or fruit. It works good and lasts a long time.

    Now, for backpacking purposes, I want to do the same recipe, but I want to bake it into narrow round loaves about the size of a Hostess Twinkie. You can understand the desire for a compact food. However, I can't find any steel cans that small in diameter. The correct size would be about like a Red Bull can, except that it must be steel. An aluminum can might not survive the oven baking. Also, I will probably need to adjust the baking time somewhat.

    Any suggestions?

    –B.G.–

    #1854803
    Walter Carrington
    BPL Member

    @snowleopard

    Locale: Mass.

    There are small steel cans used for storage or spices with a clear top; maybe you could modify it to replace the acrylic part of the top replaced with a can top. They hold 6.8 oz or 3.3 oz.
    http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=10154&cat=1,43326
    Bed Bath and Beyond sells them for spices in a 3.5 oz size.
    There are also tea containers, sold in plain steel here, also miscellaneous tins:
    http://www.specialtybottle.com/tinteasmoothsquare51wsliplid.aspx

    #1854808
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Sorry, I got sidetracked when I hit Casket Hardware.

    I don't need any can top, but it must have a bottom.

    I'm thinking the optimum size is about 8-10 fluid ounces.

    –B.G.–

    #1854813
    d k
    BPL Member

    @dkramalc

    Have you tried baking in the Red Bull cans? They might survive OK (I wouldn't use lined cans, though).

    #1854815
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Using this at home? How about a corn bread pan?

    #1854817
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    I don't know how to get the plastic liner out of a Red Bull can. Too much trouble.

    I have what I call cornbread pans, but they are a small rectangular loaf size. Are there some the size of a Red Bull can?

    Ideally, I will find steel cans that can be repurposed into this.

    –B.G.–

    #1854818
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    I've seen pans that are patterned after little ears of corn. About 8 or 10 to a pan. Each loaf/ear is not much bigger than a Twinkie.

    If you could live with hockey puck shaped loaves you could use a muffin top pan.

    #1854822
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    I think I have one muffin pan for small size muffins. That will get me the closest.

    Pans patterned after little ears of corn? That sounds like a Midwestern thing.

    At present, my standard trail snack is Logan Bread, and it is cut into squares that are about 2×2 inches. The Boston Brown Bread could be baked in a pan the same way, I suppose. It's just that Boston Brown Bread is supposed to be round, sliced like a thin hockey puck.

    –B.G.–

    #1854832
    John Nausieda
    BPL Member

    @meander

    Locale: PNW

    How about small tomato paste cans ?

    #1854837
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Tomato paste cans and condensed milk cans have a nice diameter, but they are awfully short. It would require about twenty of them to hold a batch of batter.

    –B.G.–

    #1854843
    Will Webster
    Member

    @willweb

    Assuming you're baking at home, would you consider a conventional can and then cutting the loaves lengthwise into quarters?

    #1854853
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Yes, I can slice the loaves. They might get mashed up a bit when carried in a backpack pocket. For that matter, I can bake them in the standard size steel cans, but then I would need to slice them and bag them individually.

    Like everything else, I was looking for good durability, easily to eat, easy to digest, cheap and easy to bake at home, and minimal wrapping or packaging.

    It's really kind of hard to beat Logan Bread. I put six squares of that into one ziploc bag, and that makes six big snacks. Logan Bread is more durable than Boston Brown Bread.

    –B.G.–

    #1854862
    Will Webster
    Member

    @willweb

    Agree about the Logan bread. My wife has actually given up hot breakfast on the trail – as long as I bring her a cup if tea with her Logan bread.

    #1854867
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    I can go a long way on Logan Bread, hot tea, and Gatorade.

    –B.G.–

    #1854874
    John Nausieda
    BPL Member

    @meander

    Locale: PNW

    Try this or maybe a candle mold .

    #1854877
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    "Canape-Bread-Mold"

    That could be effective. Perhaps overkill.

    I really do like the principle of Recycle, Reuse, Rebuild.

    –B.G.–

    #1854891
    John Nausieda
    BPL Member

    @meander

    Locale: PNW

    I do too. If you can find some old steel tennis ball cans they would work I think.

    #1854907
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Sapporo beer. Comes in a stainless can.

    #1854939
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    "Sapporo beer. Comes in a stainless can."

    What size is this?

    –B.G.–

    #1854950
    Diane Pinkers
    BPL Member

    @dipink

    Locale: Western Washington

    I would use Reynolds aluminum foil muffin liners, in the heaviest muffin pan you can find. I used to bake a traditional Easter Russian bread called Kulick in a coffee can, as that was the closest shape I could find to a traditional mold. Found that it was unnecessary, a bread pan works fine, just have to adjust the time slightly.

    I had to switch when my boyfriend's office switched from a coffee that came in a metal can to one that comes in plastic cannisters–can't bake in plastic!

    I love Boston Brown Bread, with baked beans. Sigh, definitely not on my current diet.

    I read in a book on hiking meals that someone had had Logan Bread nutritionally analyzed, and it came out close to graham crackers. Never tried it, myself.

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