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 great. I would love to try this pan. I bake bread almost every day now that the cold weather had returned. It warms the kitchen and warms our hearts.
Just went gluten free! Would love to win!
I love baking bread!
Beautiful…looks very tasty and yummy!
Looks delicious!
I will have to try this over the holidays when my girls come home.
Looks very good. Love the baker. It’s a great concept. The crust looks fantastic.
My father was a baker. My daughter is a baker. I work at a gourmet kitchen store that sells Emile Henry! I own all the Artisan Bread in Five Books! I bet the bread is fabulous in the Emile Bread Baker!!
I could eat bread all day long and this looks delicious!
This recipe sounds delicious! I can’t wait to try it!
The bread looks yummy! I would love to win!
Drooling-over the bread and the pan!
Love, Love, Love your book. It totally changed my perception of bread. This looks like another great recipe!
I can smell the cranberry orange bread already. Love that the pan make toaster size loaves.
Love love love baking bread!
What a great pan! Awesome recipe too. I will be making this soon.
Wow, lovely! Thank you for the chance.
You guys have put fun into baking! It’s a pleasure reading and using your books. I would love to try to new bread pan!
I want nothing more than to be able to make fresh loaf bread for my children. I’m getting back into the bread baking and boy have I missed it! My son loves bread since he was a little one and he can’t get enough of sandwiches and I hope to perfect it enough to make him proud and have a healthier bread to eat. Going to check out this new item so It can make it a little easier on this super busy mom!
Yes! …and red is my color.
Every recipe I have made from your books has been wonderful.
I got my “bread bucket” last year and love making the no knead bread. It’s delicious! The red bread baker is gorgeous and would love to use it to bake my bread
What a great recipe and pan to bake it in! I’d love to try this.
I love the Bread baker pan! From oven to table, in style… Not to mention the golden crust… Beautiful!
I’d absolutely love to win this fantastic giveaway, I’d probably scream at the top of my lungs if I were to win, thank you for the chance. I have my fingers, toes and if necessary I will cross my eyes!
I am making a second batch of Italian Panetonne for early Christmas gifts as the first loaves were well received. Every bread made from NewABin5 has been a success. Thank you.
Beautiful pan and bread!
Beautiful!! Would love to bake more bread and this would make it happen! Thanks!
yum!
gluten free bread recipes!! nothing beats a fresh loaf of bread!
love the looks of the new pan would love to add this to my kitchen. Bread is my new passion.
What a gorgeous loaf pan!
That’s a marked difference between using the baker and not. Even with steam, mine don’t come out quite that nice!
This post left my mouth watering. The pictures were spectacular!
What a beautiful baker. Art and function in one piece. I love the cookbooks and would love to win the set. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I love to learn new methods of baking easy. I would most welcomely enjoy this awesome bread loaf pan and the cookbook and the first thing I would cook is this easy recipe! So appreciate this giveaway!
What a wonderful giveaway. Who doesn’t love to smell bread baking and what a lovely vessel to bake bread in. I have the first Artisan Bread in Five Minutes would love to add this one to my collection and bake some more.
Walnut raisin is my favorite! Can’t wait to try it – hopefully in the pretty red pan.
Wow, cant wait to try this!
Love this new pan! The raisin bread recipe is definitely a keeper.
Nice! I do like Emile Henry bakeware – it always seems to be just a bit better than anything else. This bread sounds great too. I already have ABin5, but I wouldn’t object to getting the new version – and I can pass the old one on. Thanks!
Thank you the chance to win this great package. A very intriguing recipe, can’t wait to try.
I would love to win this give away-I haven’t tried the platinum yeast or the bread pan. I have however made many of the recipes, both regular and GF with amazing results.
I love raisin bread! Your method is the only one I use when I want a crusty yummy loaf! I am a big fan! Thanks for posting such a great giveaway!
I would love to win this pan and try the Platinum yeast! I don’t have any decent loaf pans, so this would be a real treat! I have all of the books, so someone special would receive my copy.
That bread looks absolutely amazing. If that pan works for gluten free bread in the same way as for glutinous, I would love to have one.
I pretty much love everything about this post and give-away! Emile Henry makes excellent quality products and I pretty much only use the AB5 method for bread.
This recipe sounds great, too… When I mentally substitute dried cranberries or cherries for the raisins!
Oh that bread loaf pan is a must a have. A perfect Christmas present for any baker.
Made my first loaf from the book this week, so excited to start baking bread again.
I would love to win this Holiday Baking Package!!! Five years ago I visited my cousin in Ohio and he told me he made his bread from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day. I immediately ordered it and have not bought bread since. As soon as I saw this recipe on FB for Raisin Walnut Bread I sent it to my cousin. This will be the next bread I make!