Molasses, Sultana and Oatmeal Bread (Abm / Bread Machine)

• 280 ml water (room temperature)
• 400 g white bread flour
• 60 g blackstrap molasses
• 15 g butter
• 15 g nonfat dry milk powder (1 Tablespoon, Heaped)
• 5 g salt (1 Teaspoon)
• 55 g oatmeal (a.k.a. Porridge Oats in the UK)
• 14 teaspoon vitamin C powder (optional but recommended.)
• 1 12 teaspoons ground ginger (optional, to taste)
• 1 dash ground cloves (generous optional)
• 7 g bread machine yeast (Sainsbury's in the UK do 7g rather than the more usual 6g sachets (equals 1 1/2 Teaspoons approximat)
• 100 g sultanas (I prefer sultanas for their sweetness, mix these together with...) or 100 g raisins (I prefer sultanas for their sweetness, mix these together with...)
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger (optional)

1. Weigh the main ingredients into the bread machine drum in the order listed.
2. The ginger is optional and to taste (I love ginger so I'm a bit generous with it) but if leaving it out then it's probably best to leave the ground cloves out too.
3. Into a small bowl weigh approx 100g sultanas and mix in a teaspoon of ground ginger to coat the sultanas well (if using ginger).
4. Start machine on 'speciality' or 'raisin bread' cycle with normal crust setting.
5. At about 5 minutes before the end of the second kneading or at the beep (if you trust your machine not to mash up the sultanas - mine is lethal to them so I ignore the beep and wait until only a few minutes remain of the second kneading) add the sultanas mixed together with the ground ginger.
6. Measurements: I find blackstrap molasses is almost impossible to measure using a spoon as it's so incredibly thick and gooey and most of it stays on the spoon so I just pour it out of the jar - which can make for some rather hit and miss measurements.
7. Taste-wise, I liked the strength of flavour best when I suceeded in pouring in 62g of molasses and used 103g of sultanas.
8. Basically I think of this as cake without the all the fat and the calories :).
9. Bakes a good-sized 1 1/2 Lb Loaf.
10. Addition, tried December 2005 --
11. I remebered that I had some crystallized ginger (a.k.a.
12. candied ginger) in the cupboard and added 32g chopped up to about the size of the sultanas which I mixed with the fruit and ground ginger for adding at the beep.
13. The quantity was probably a bit excessive and it does make the loaf a bit trickier to slice as ginger can be quite 'tough', but an idea to bear in mind if you have some in the cupboard and fancy it :).

water, white bread flour, molasses, butter, nonfat dry milk, salt, oats, vitamin, ground ginger, ground cloves, bread machine yeast, sultanas, ground ginger

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/molasses-sultana-and-oatmeal-bread-abm-bread-machine-145469 (may not work)