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White Spelt Raisin Bread

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JarryS88

White Spelt Raisin Bread

Been solidly into baking breads for the past 6 months most weekends and would like to share some of the recipes i've come up with to get feedback and thoughts.

I still need to improve my shaping technique but especially considering my White Spelt breads rise so much in the oven.

This recipe is a White Spelt Raisin Bread.

It's actually just my White Spelt Bread recipe which I add Raisins/Sultanas, 23g extra of sugar and 13g of mixed spice (which is basically ground cinnamon with a little all spice)

It's essentially a Hot Cross Bun bread mixture with roughly half white spelt, but in a loaf.

One of the greatest things about my Spelt bread recipes are how short the proof is for Spelt so you can make the loaf much quicker.

 

 

Ingredients

  • 300g White Spelt flour

  • 215g Bread Flour (185g for dry mix, 30g for TangZhong)

  • 5g Guar Gum

  • 7g Bread Improver (Mostly a Soy Flour mix)
  • 1 Egg

  • 7g Dry Yeast

  • 30g Butter

  • 12g tsp Salt

  • 35g Sugar

  • 13g Mixed Spice
  • 1 Cup Raisins
  • 150ml Warm Water

  • 250ml Scorched Milk

 

Method

 

  1. About half hour before you start, in a microwaveable bowl, whisk together all of the water and 30g of the Bread flour until fully combined

  2. Microwave for 20 seconds, remove and whisk thoroughly.  Continue to microwave for 20 second intervals, removing and whisking in between until its thickened up considerably.

  3. Cover with cling wrap and place the now prepared tangzhong in the fridge to cool down.

  4. In a mixer (I use a kenwood chef), put the remaining bread flour, the sugar, the guar gum, the mixed spice, the raisins, the yeast and the salt and mix to combine.

  5. Put all the milk in a small saucepan and heat until it just starts to boil. Immediately set aside to cool (I usually put the pan in the sink which is filled with cold water so it cools quicker).

  6. Melt the butter in the microwave in a cup/bowl.

  7. Once the milk and tangzhong are cooled to luke warm or less, add the milk, egg, tangzhong and the melted butter to the mixer.

  8. Put the mixer on low with the mixing paddle still on

  9. Once combined, add all the Spelt flour and mix for 30 seconds before switching to the dough hook and letting it knead on medium speed for 5-10 minutes (I check consistency using a window pan test)

  10. Grease a large bowl (with olive oil) and place the dough ball in there.  Lightly coat the dough ball with the oil too. Cover and set aside for 30-40 minutes, until it's roughly doubled in size.

  11. Once it's doubled, punch it down smacking out the air and give it a quick short knead again and form into a log that's the length of your bread tin

  12. Grease a bread tin with olive oil (i use a 28cm x 10cm tin non stick).

  13. Put the log in the bread tin and cover with cling film.

  14. Preheat the oven to 200c fan forced.

  15. Let the bread rest for 15-20 minutes checking its proofing with a poke test.
  16. Once proofed, remove the cling film and score the bread down the middle length ways.

  17. Pour a little water (30-50ml) into the bottom of the oven to create a little steam and place the in the oven on the middle shelf. (I take out the top shelf as the bread rise can be restricted by the shelf above).

  18. Cook for 30 minutes.  I always check my loafs by knocking underneath but find my spelt recipes are always 30 minutes.

  19. Remove from the bread pan immediately onto a wire cooling rack.

  20. Allow to cook completely to room temperature before slicing.

pul's picture
pul

Lovely and rich.  Well done!

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Lechem (not verified)

Very nice loaf indeed. I've sent your recipe to a friend of mine. Hope you don't mind.

JarryS88's picture
JarryS88

Thanks. 

No problems at all! Hopefully I've written it out so that others get similar results.

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alfanso

bread.  Congratulations.

alan