How to Make Homemade Raisin Bread

How to make old-fashioned sweet raisin yeast bread.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Mixing Bowl
• Loaf Pan
• 2 standard packages of dry yeast dissolved in 1/4 cup of lukewarm water
• 1 box of raisins, soaked for 1 hour in 2 c of cool water and then drained well.
• 2 cups of scalded milk
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground mace
• 1 tsp lemon extract
• 2 eggs beaten
• 6 cups flour (approximately)
• 1 tbsp cream
• 1 egg yolk, beaten

1. Put butter, sugar, spice (mace, cinnamon or nutmeg), salt and flavoring into large bowl and pour scalded milk over ingredients.

2. Wait until ingredients are lukewarm then add eggs, yeast mixture, and raisins. Gradually, add flour and mix by hand or mixer with dough hook until dough forms a smooth ball (about 3 to 5 minutes).

3. Cover and let bread dough rise in a buttered large bowl until double in bulk. Punch down dough and form into two loaves. Put dough into greased bread pans and let rise until double in bulk.

4. Brush loaves with cream and egg yolk. Bake loaves at 400 F for 15 minutes and 350 F for approximately 35 minutes longer. Cover the loaves with foil if they are getting too dark.

5. Remove from pans, brush with melted butter and cool on racks. When cool serve with whipped sweet butter.

Tips & Warnings

• The recipe calls for mace, which is the outer covering of the nutmeg seed. Nutmeg or cinnamon may be substituted.

Resources

• Honey Nut Butter

[mvalora]

on 8/20/2009 We love good raisin bread at our house. Sounds like a good recipe!

[sullysee]

on 7/24/2009 Good recipe, I'll bet it smells heavenly!

[justforfun2]

on 5/25/2009 This sounds delicious! It has been ages since I have had raisin bread.

[emuman1]

on 2/12/2009 I can definitely use this. Excellent.

[SarahRobinson]

on 2/5/2009 This sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing.