I love cinnamon raisin breads. I make them often and find them to be the perfect breakfast treat, with just enough sweetness to not require jam, just enough fruit to. New to baking bread Start with this easy and comprehensive guide to a beginners sourdough bread, all from homeIngredients. Instructions. This is my favorite, simple 100 Whole Wheat Bread recipe. This recipe makes two loaves. I always double it for my family, so if the pictures in this tutorial look. For many of us home bakers, making a good loaf of sourdough bread feels like striving for the World Cup or an Olympic gold medal. Just add enough to make a nice, non sticky dough. Heres a video to show you how to knead the dough. Two things 1 I was having a freaked out hair day. So glad I could share it with you. Im pretty sure wetter is not a real word, yet I use that word toward the end of the video. I are sorry. Dont you love how I spank the dough at the end of the clip Theres something very gratifying about giving the dough a nice spank. You should try it sometime. Once youve kneaded your dough, place it into a bowl to rise. Cover the dough with a cloth and let it rise for at least one hour or until it has risen to twice its starting size. While youre waiting for your dough to rise, get your bread pans buttered. You can also do some laundry, wash some dishes, or clean the bread dough out from under your fingernails. There it isdoubled up. Give the raised dough a nice punch. Punching Spanking Who knew making bread was so violent in natureUsing a floured hand, pull the dough out of the bowl onto the counter. Knead for three or four minutes until the air bubbles are all gone. Now you can watch how I shape my dough into loaves before baking. Againmore spankingCover and allow 3. They should double in size, but the rising should happen more quickly this time because the yeast knows what to do by now. See here how the loaves have doubled in size Bake the bread uncovered in a 3. Great. Spanking, punching and thumping. I am really a bad influence. Allow the bread to cool in the pans for 1. The bread slices more easily after its cooled. Howeverits awfully hard to waitand bread fresh out of the oven slathered in butter is really, really good. I say go for it. A few notes Making bread from start to finish takes about 3 12 to 4 hours. Most of that time is waiting and baking timebut if you plan to make bread, you should block out an entire morning or afternoon. If your water or butter is too cold or too hot, it will kill the yeast. If you can put your clean finger in the water or butter and it doesnt burn you, but just feels warm youve got the right temperature. If the dough in your bowl has risen to double and suddenly you need to nurse the baby or wash cottage cheese out from between your toddlers toesjust go punch down your dough and let it rise again before you shape it. It wont hurt anything. If you want to shape your dough into loaves, but bake them later Shape your loaves then put them directly into the freezer before they have a chance to rise. Allow them to sit in buttered loaf pans for several hours or overnight so that they can thaw and rise before baking. Many of you have asked if I have a bread machine. I dont, so Im sorry I am not able to answer your questions about them. Im assuming this recipe would work in a machine, but I dont know.