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.
This looks amazing!
The Emile pan and the recipe combo sounds super great!
this looks great! can’t wait to try the raisin walut bread, plus platinum yeast and the red pan!
walnut – can’t type.
That pan looks interesting. My DH sometimes gripes that the bread I make in round or oval loaves doesn’t slice well for sandwiches.
Looks great
the bread looks great! I can’t wait to try it.
OH My this looks fantastic. I have always wanted to know how to make bread and this looks like the way to start.
What a lovely looking pan! So cheerful and perfect for this time of year.
Can you brush with butter before baking or do you need the water layer to get enough steam in the pan?
Intrigued by the Emile Henry loaf pan. Thanks for the lucky chance!
um, Raisin walnut, sounds great.
The new pan sounds really great, maybe Santa?
Sounds like a bread baking must have.
Raisin walnut bread baked in a pretty red pan! Like magic!
That pan looks just as beautiful as the bread made in it!
Raisin and Walnut bread is my husband’s absolute favourite!! Much to my chagrin I have to buy it in the supermarket since all my efforts to produce a lovely soft crust have failed miserably. I would love to be able to try out this loaf pan.
I can however report a complete success when baking your European Peasant Bread recipe. In fact I have added a cup of soaked grains and seeds to this recipe and have not looked back since. It is the closest I have come to baking the seeded loaves I am familiar with from Germany.
What a treat this pan must be! I would love to try it with the this recipe, since Raisin Nut bread is a favorite of ours.
If I am not lucky enough to win I will look for it in stores, as I have not seen it till this post.
Looks lovely and easy to use! I’d like a chance to win please 🙂
the bread baker is beautiful! a great reason to try more of your recipes.
Bread looks deelish! Im going to try making it this weekend.
The pan is gorgeous, as is the bread. Baking your bread in that pan would be a real treat!
Love this and love the color
The pan does make the bread have a very pleasant look.
This looks lovely. My 6 year old loves to bake and I bet I can talk her into making this tomorrow! The loaf pan is fascinating.
Looking forward to giving ABin5 to many family members this Christmas…
I would love to win!!
Just bought the book. I can’t wait to try the recipes and this bread baker looks cute!
That bread looks amazing! And thank you for the lovely giveaway! 🙂
Happy holidays!
That pan really makes the bread look amazing
Oh my, does this look like a nice product for baking bread.
Oh! I love it! I’m a big fan of 5 Minutes a Day – I used to make the boule (and I am not kidding) every other day. I stopped when my daughter arrived (an over full of hot water and a mobile child just feels like an emergency room visit waiting to happen). She’s old enough now that it would be OK – I’m just out of the habit. That loaf pan will solve that problem. I wonder what I did with my Great Big Dough Bowl…
Wow! The pan looks amazing. As always, you provide wonderful information and recipes. Thank you!
Merry Christmas!
My favorite artisan bread from the bakery is a cranberry walnut. I think this recipe would work with the fruit substitution. Can’t wait to try.
The bread looks great! Can not wait to try it 🙂
Ok, so today is my day off and it’s grey and cold in Montana. Will be making a loaf of this in a regular pan, so I need to win the package so I will have a fun pan to cook with.
I love this Cookbook and Emily Henry cookware. I own a couple pieces just not this pan.. I would love to have. It’s amazing the difference the right cookware makes..
That is the most beautiful bread pan I’ve ever seen. Wow. (And the loaf looks delicious,too!)
Can’t wait to try this new recipe. Love artisan bread in five!
Oh my goodness, looks divine. Would love to try one of these bread pans!!!
Yum. That looks delicious.
This looks so lovely! Would love to try using the loaf pan.
I would love to try this and start making homemade gluten free bread!
Looks delicious!
I love the Emile Henry pie pans. I imagine the bread baker must be just as wonderful. And it will look much better on my counter than the usual wads of tin foil that are there.
I’d love to gift my sister the AB Gluten Free book!
Never heard of a break baker before! Would be tons of fun to experiment with,
Everything I have baked from Artisan (and New Artisan) Bread in 5 Minutes a Day has been superlative! I am heading to the kitchen to start this now! Thank you.
I totally want to try that bread baker!
I would love one of these pans!
That’s a great looking pan, I would like to try it one day.