Easy German Brown Bread

I just mentioned in a post about eating German Brown Bread today -- good thing we'd made a batch yesterday (for cooking math!). This is a fabulous recipe that makes three good-sized loaves and is wonderful with cream cheese ....

Ingredients:

• 1 cup raisins (be generous)
• 3 cups boiling water
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup chopped nuts (be generous)
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 tsp baking soda
• 3 cups rye flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 cups all-purpose flour

Preparation:

• Stir raisins into boiling water. Let cool.
• Mix the sugars, eggs, vanilla and nuts. Blend well. Add to raisins/water (DON'T drain the raisins, you want that good brown water too!)
• Measure dry ingredients into bowl. Stir in raisin batter.
• Fill 2 or 3 well-greased loaf pans a bit more than half full.
• Bake at 315 for 45-60 minutes.