Soft Raisin Bread
- 250 g bread flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 egg
- 120 g water
- 20 g warm water (to dissolve dry yeast)
- 1 teaspoon dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 90 g raisins (soaked in the rest of egg for an hour)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (option)
- 1/4 cup walnuts (chopped, option)
- Dissolve dry yeast in warm water.Drain raisins and dry with paper towel. Set aside.
- Add flour, sugar, salt(and cinnamon, option) to food processor(use a bread blade) and pulse a few times.
- Add yeast solution and covered with the flour.
- Start food processor and run for 90 seconds.Within 30 seconds add egg and water solution with the same speed.
- Stop machine and add butter and mix well by hand.
- Start machine again and run for 40 seconds.
- Take out dough to a bowl, and add raisins (and nuts), mix well by hand. Roll and put in the bowl.Cover with prastic wrap, let rise in a warm place(at 28C) until doubled in size (about 40 to 50 minutes).
- Punch dough and rolled again.Cover dough and rest for 20 minutes.
- Make dough 15cmx25cm size and roll up.
- Grease a loaf tin (22 x 10 x 10 cm) and put dough.Put loaf tin into a prastic bag and rise in a warm place(at 38c) for 40 mins or until the top of dough is just above the loaf tin.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes at 375F(or 180-200C).
bread flour, sugar, salt, egg, water, water, yeast, unsalted butter, raisins, cinnamon, walnuts
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/soft-raisin-bread-150284 (may not work)