Description
This is the nicest spicy fruit loaf i ever made. It is wonderfully moist and really scrumptious! (i make a fruit loaf of one sort or another every other day, and change things a bit from time to time. This is my absolute favourite combination). A note regarding my ingredients – my dried raisins and peel are really quite dry so i increase the water to about 244g (about an extra 3/4 tsp). This means i deliberately make it with the dough looking like it's way too wet during kneading, but the very dry fruit soaks up the excess water. My loaves work out fine despite looking over-moist to start with. I've found through experience that for any bread that will have dried ingredients added late in the kneading process it can be necessary to adjust the water quantity subtly according to how dried the fruit/grains etc are. I use part margarine part butter to reduce fat content slightly. No reason really not to use all butter instead. Butter is nicer 🙂 makes a loaf of approx 1 1/2 lbs.
Ingredients
- Water
- White Bread Flour
- Vitamin C Powder
- Salt
- Firm Margarine
- Butter
- Nonfat Dry Milk Powder
- Wheat Bran
- Demerara Sugar
- Bread Machine Yeast
- Seedless Raisins
- Citrus Peels
- Ground Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Ground Cardamom
- Apples