Raisin Breakfast Bread Cramique Recipes

HOMEMADE RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Dissolve the yeast in the warm water.
• In a large bowl, combine the raisins, warm milk, butter, sugar, and salt; stir to dissolve the sugar. Let the mixture cool to lukewarm.
• Stir 1 1/2 cups of the flour into the milk mixture and beat until smooth.
• Add the yeast mixture and the beaten eggs to the milk mixture and mix to blend well.
• Add enough of the remaining flour to make a soft but stiff dough.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for about 10 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic.
• Butter or oil a large bowl. Place the dough in the greased bowl. Turn it over to grease the entire surface of the dough.
• Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and let it stand in a warm, draft-free place until it has doubled in bulk, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Punch the dough down and divide it into two equal portions. Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and let it rest for 10 minutes.
• Shape the dough into two loaves and place them in two greased 8-by-4-inch loaf pans .
• Cover the pans with a kitchen towel and let the loaves rise for about 45 to 60 minutes, or until the dough has almost doubled in bulk. Then preheat oven to 375 F.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Place foil over the loaves for the last 10 minutes if they look overly brown.
• Remove the loaves from the pans and let them cool on racks. Serve and enjoy!

RAISIN BREAD - BREAD MACHINE

Steps:

• Place ingredients into bread pan in the order suggested by your bread machine manufacturer. I put the raisins in after the beep or after the first knead to avoid the bread machine going all HULK SMASH! on them, but it is up to you.
• Oh yeah, bake on white.

RAISIN BREAKFAST BREAD (CRAMIQUE)

Steps:

• Place 1 1/2 cups flour in the bowl of your mixer.
• In a medium bowl, whisk togathere the yeast and th milk, then whisk in the egg yolks.
• Stir the egg mixture into the flour.
• Using the paddle, mix on the lowest speed for 2 minutes; stop the mixer and allow the dough to rest for tene minutes.
• Add the butter, sugar and salt to the bowl along with the remaining 1/2 cup of flour and mix on the lowest speed until combined; then mix on medium speed until the dough is smooth and elastic, about another 3 - 4 minutes.
• Beat in the raisins on the lowest speed (if necessary, plump the raisins in hot water to soften, drain, pat dry and add).
• Scrape the dough into a buttereed bowl and turn the dough over so that the top is buttered.
• Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise til doubled, about an hour.
• Meanwhile butter a loaf pan and line the bottom with parchment.
• After the dough is risen, scrape it onto a floured board.
• Press the dough into a rectangle brush off any excess flour; stretch th dough into a rectangle and then fold like a business letter about the length of your loaf pan.
• Tuck in the ends and lay the loaf in the pan, seam side down.
• Butter a piece of plastic wrap and cover the bread with it (buttered side down) and allow the loaf to rise til doubled, about an hour.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• When the loaf has completely risen, place on a rack in the middle of the oven and bake until the bread is a deep golden color and reaches an internal temperature of 200 degrees F., about 30 minutes.
• Unmold onto a rack and cool on its side.
• Eat it then or wrap and freeze.