Raisin Walnut Bread
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Raisin Walnut Bread
3 cups lukewarm water
1 tablespoon instant or active dry yeast
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 cup whole wheat flour
5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (if you use King Arthur or other high protein flours, you may need to add up to a 1/4 cup more water)
1 cup raisins
1 cup walnuts
2 teaspoons cinnamon
In a 6-Quart Round Storage Container add the water, yeast, salt, flours
raisins
walnuts and cinnamon.
Mix with a Danish Dough Whisk, a wooden spoon or a stand mixer.
Let the dough rise for 2 hours and then you can use it right away or it can be stored for about 7 days.
Pull out a 2-pound piece of dough, about half the dough in the bucket.
Quickly shape it into a smooth oval.
Generously grease and flour the base of the bread baker.
Place the dough into Bread Loaf Baker.
Cover and let rest for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. This will depend on what else you have going on and how chilly your kitchen is.
Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Uncover the loaf and use a Pastry Brush to paint with water.
Because this baker has a lid it traps the internal moisture of the dough, almost like a Dutch Oven, to create a shiny, crisp crust. Since it has the small holes, the crust will also color nicely during the baking without having to remove the cover.
Bake for about 45 minutes. If you open the lid and it is not yet golden brown, let it bake another 5 minutes.
Let the bread cool in the baker for 5 minutes
Turn the loaf out of the pan after 5 minutes and then let cool completely.
After you’ve enjoyed some of your bread you can slip it back into the baker to store it on the counter.
Since the cover has holes the loaf won’t get soggy, but it is protected enough to keep the bread from staling as quickly. It also happens to keep nosey puppies from the counter.
Here is the loaf baked in a regular loaf pan. You can see that the crust is pale and dull looking in comparison. It was still as tasty, but without the trapped steam the loaf just wasn’t as appealing. You’d have to add steam to the oven if you were to bake it in this style pan.
Lesaffre Yeast Corp. (Red Star) provided samples of yeast for recipe testing, and sponsors BreadIn5’s website and other promotional activities. Emile Henry provided bakeware and sponsorship.
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This looks so yummy! Can’t wait to try the recipe.
Beautiful loaf of bread!
Love you guys and your teaching style, Would love to try the pan and the yeast.
Another terrific bread! I was looking for the recipe for gift giving. This is it! Thanks.
Oooh! I’m always up for some new “toys” in the kitchen. BTW, this Christmas I’m trying some of the gluten-free recipes in Healthy Bread in 5 now that we have someone in the family with celiac.
Already have this book but the baker … oh wow! That would be so awesome. Happy Holidays.
I love this pan!!! I bake in cast iron, it would be nice to be able to do a pan loaf!!
the bread baker looks great. i’d love to try making this.
The bread baker looks like a great piece of equipment. I love your recipes and would love to try them with the bread baker.
The bread baker sounds great. Would the bread recipe do just as well substituting chopped dates for the raisins. I’ve got a husband who hates raisins (something about the texture, he says).
A beautiful bread baker and a beautiful loaf of bread! Would love to give this a try.
Fun giveaway! I can’t wait to make this recipe… it looks amazing!
What a gorgeous pan!
Perfect! I can’t wait to try it.
This recipe looks good, and I love the pan! I recently started making artisan bread (white and wheat loaves), and am ready to branch out.
I love your GF book SO much and have recommended it (and your other books!) to many of my friends. Thank you for bringing wonderful tasting bread back into my life!
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I love your books! It is my family’s favorite bread and I love trying your new recipes. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway.
I love to bake but for some reason have always been afraid of yeast and bread. I’d love to try this delicious loaf!
This looks delicious!
The Emile Henry ceramic covered loaf pan would be a wonderful addition to my bread baking tools!
Mmm… raisin walnut bread. Sounds delicious. I’m gonna have to make some, maybe with pecans instead?
Beautiful bread pan. I have your first book and hoping to try the GF one soon.
Can hardly wait to try this recipe. Wonder if I can put almond paste in the middle to make a kerstbrood.
*Drooling* I would love to win!
Absolutely gorgeous bread…perfect for the holidays. And the loaf pan is definitely going on my Christmas list:) Could you tell me where to get the glass storage containers (pictured) for flour, etc. Is it important to have a rubber seal around the rim? Thanks so much for your fabulous cookbook and website! I’ve barely scratched the surface and am totally addicted!
I tried your recipe on the back of a flour sack and my ‘old school’ bread baker mom was like ‘what are you doing??’ we were very pleased with the results! I love expanding my baking horizons!
Raisin walnut bread in a red pan (my favorite color)! What could be better for Christmas! Love it!
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Would be a dream to win
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Thanks
I love Baking Bread! What a fabulous looking Pan! Thank you for this opportunity. This would make a lovely Christmas present!
This bread reminds me of a restaurant that we used to go to that made a similar bread. It was sweet and delicate with cinnamon, raisins and walnuts. YUM!
I have enjoyed the New AB in 5 very much. I have never seen Red Star Platinum in stores. I would love to win this prize of the Platinum yeast and the Emile Henry loaf pan. Then off to new adventures in baking.
The bread baker looks wonderful. I often bake bread, so I would love to have one. Since I almost never win anything, please let me know where these bakers are available for purchase. Thanks.
The loaf pan sounds fantastic and the recipe sounds easy and delicious.
This looks like such a wonderful pan! Who would’ve thought that such a simple pan could make such a gorgeous loaf!
I need to try that Rasin Walnut Bread too… yum!
My 17 year old son loves your book and he is now our resident bread maker in our home! He would absolutely love this load pan, the yeast and the book.
You always keep me trying new recipes. This sounds wonderful and the Emile Henry pan is intriguing.
You make it look so easy! Thanks for the chance to win.
Somehow I missed the crock pot post. I’ll have to go back and try that.
That looks amazing!
Beautiful Loaf pan, Beautiful Bread, would love the opportunity to bake this loaf in my kitchen!
Oh, I’m so excited about this recipe! I’ve been buying cranberry walnut bread for the past month or so. Now, I can make my own! Hooray!
That loaf pan looks amazing, too!!
Beautiful baker! Perfect for the holidays.
Love that Danish whisk. Much easier to clean than a full stand mixer. That loaf looks like a nice change the usual holiday cookies
Sounds marvelous! You’ve sold me on the baker. I’ll have to find one….
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I love raisins and walnuts…. And bakers… and yeast.
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Oh my what a beautiful baker and delicious looking loaf of bread!!
I can’t wait to try this recipe and that amazing Emile Henry bread loaf baker. I love that you can even store your loaf (assuming you have any leftovers) back in the pan! Now I know what I would like for Christmas.
Gorgeous loaf of bread and I need this pan!