{our daily bread}

A Monday meme. Handmade with love, kneaded with strength, baked from the heat of the Earth. A part of each day. Every week I will post a photo of one our doughy creations. From seven-grain loaves to tortillas to hot cross buns to chapati to french bread sticks. If you’reinspired to post a photo of your homemade bread and recipes just leave a comment and link below for everyone to awe and marvel at. You’re also welcome to use the sidebar button if you’d like to.

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I've really become attached to raisin bread for breakfast as of late. So much so that I decided to get serious with the recipe and play around with it in order to make the perfect mouth-watering loaf. Here's what I've come up with:

Raisin Bread

Ingredients

1 cup wholemeal flour

1 cup white flour

1 packet of yeast (7g)

1/8 cup brown sugar

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

pinch of salt

30 g butter

140 mL warm milk

1 egg, lightly beaten

3/4 cup raisins

Directions

Mix the all dry ingredients and raisins together in a bowl. Melt the butter in a saucepan and then add the milk to the saucepan to warm it up. Add the milk, melted butter and egg to the dry ingredients and knead on a floured surface for around 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic. Place in a bowl and cover with a warm, wet cloth and place somwhere warm for at least 2 hours until the dough has doubled in size. Then, remove the dough from the bowl, knead again and form into either a round loaf or place in a greased/lined bread tin to bake. Bake at 190˚C for 20-30 minutes depending on the thickness and shape of the loaf (longer for a rectangular tin and shorter for a round loaf).

Serve with butter or almond butter. Divine!

xo