Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Bread Food

CINNAMON RAISIN SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• Take out about 1-2 tablespoons of your starter from the fridge and mix it with 50 grams of room temperature water and 50 grams of flour (sifted bread flour, whole grain, spelt, or a combo - whatever you prefer as long as the flour to water ratio is 1:1).
• Cover the bowl with a plate and leave it on the counter to ferment overnight for approximately 8-12 hours.
• Once your levain is ready, combine 100 grams of the levain with 375 grams of water. Add the flour to the water mixture and, using your hands, mix to combine.
• Once the dough is mixed, cover with a tea towel and let sit at room temperature for 40 minutes to rest. Meanwhile, soak the raisins in room temperature water (make sure the raisins are covered with at least an inch of water).
• After the elapsed 40 minute resting time, add the salt. Mix well until combined. Drain the raisins and mix them into the dough along with the cinnamon.
• To do this get your hands damp and reach under the dough on the opposite side of the bowl from you.
• Pull the dough up and over towards you.
• Repeat this so the side closest to you folds over to the side away from you and the side on your left folds towards you right, and your right folds towards your left. Think of it as wrapping a package.
• Then, scoop your hands under the ball of dough and flip it over completely. This completes one "fold".
• Complete 6 more folds (one fold every 30 minutes) for 3 hours total.
• Begin by taking the dough out of the bowl and letting it rest on the counter for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare your banneton by dusting it with flour, or layer a clean tea towel in a medium mixing bowl and dust liberally with flour (50-50 wheat flour and rice flour is a great dusting combo).
• Shape your dough making sure you get as much surface tension as possible without tearing the outside of the loaf.
• Once shaped, turn the loaf into the lined and floured bowl or banneton (top-down, seam side up).
• Gently flour the top (previously the bottom) of the dough before covering with the edges of the tea towel. Set in the fridge overnight.
• The next day place your dutch oven in the oven and preheat to 500°F (260°C) or as hot as your oven can go, but no higher than 500°F (260°C).
• After the oven has come to temperature, let the dutch oven continue to preheat for another 30 minutes.
• Once the dutch oven has been preheated, take your bread out of the fridge.
• Gently invert the dough onto a piece of parchment paper that will be large enough to lift your bread into and out of the dutch oven.
• Gently score the bread with a sharp knife or bread lame.
• Using oven mitts, carefully remove the dutch oven from the oven, take off the lid and then carefully lift the dough into the pot using the parchment paper.
• Using oven mitts, carefully place the lid back on the dutch oven and put the entire dutch oven back into the heated oven.
• Reduce the heat to 230°C (450°F) and bake for 20 minutes. Carefully remove the lid (be careful of steam) and bake for another 20-25 minutes with the lid off.
• Remove the pot from the oven and carefully lift out the loaf using the edges of the parchment paper and let cool completely on a wire rack.
• If heat makes it too difficult to extract the dough and parchment layer safely, just let the loaf cool in the Dutch oven - don't risk burning yourself.

SOURDOUGH CINNAMON BREAD WITH RAISINS

Steps:

• Begin with a very active recently fed starter. It should pass the float test.
• Set a large bowl on a digital food scale set to grams and press the tare button. The scale should read zero.
• Pour in the water to weight of 650 g. Press tare.
• Pour in 300 grams of starter. Press tare. The starter should form a floating mass on the water.
• Add the oil. Press tare
• Add the honey. Press tare.
• Whisk together the starter, oil, honey and water until they are mixed.
• Add the 1000 grams of flour.
• Mix the flour into the water/starter with a dough hook, spatula and your wet hands until you have a shaggy ball of dough.
• autolyse 1 hour.
• Sprinkle salt across dough.
• spritz with water bottle and work in the salt with wet hands.
• Rest 30 mins
• PREPARE RAISINS: Put the raisins in water and set aside. They will plump as they absorb water for a better finished baking result.
• Begin Stretch and Folds. You need 4 rounds of stretch and folds 30 mins apart. See video for technique.
• BEFORE the second stretch and fold cut the dough in half if you only want ONE loaf for cinnamon raisin bread. The other make as plain.
• Incorporate the plumped raisins into the dough in the second and third stretch and folds. Half in one then half in the other.
• Fourth stretch and fold all the raisin will be blended evenly throughout the dough.
• Refrigerate overnight.
• Remove from fridge and warm to room temperature. (ABOUT TWO HOURS)
• ( If you have not yet divided the dough for loaves) Divide the dough into two equal dough balls by weight.
• Bench rest an hour until dough is elastic.
• De-gass dough with rolling pin and shape for pans as shown in post.
• Spray the dough with water and evenly sprinkle with Half the cinnamon sugar.
• Fold the outside edges of the dough to the center and close the seam. Sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar on the top.
• Fold the FRONT corners of the rectangle to the center seam.
• Roll the dough up tucking it as you roll to keep the roll tight.
• Flatten the seam and pinch the ends.
• Place the formed dough loaf into your oiled bread pans.
• let dough do a final rise in bread pans covered loosely with plastic until they reach the top of the loaf pans.
• Do an egg wash(optional) on top of the dough before baking.
• Score the dough with a sharp wet blade. Make one deep slash down the length of the loaf for best rise.
• Preheat oven with a pizza stone(or baking sheet) and broiler pan on oven shelf below at 400°.
• Loaf pans go on top of a sheet pan onto the stone(If you have one).
• Spritz loaves very liberally with water bottle just before going into oven.
• Pour water about 1/2 inch deep in the broiler pan. This creates steam.
• Keep steamy for first 15 mins. Spray hot oven with water as you begin baking the loaves.
• After 15 mins turn oven down to 375°.
• Bake an additional 30-35 mins.
• Turn loaves for even browning.
• Using a digital thermometer check internal Temp of loaf. It is done at 200°. If you don't have a thermometer pop loaves out to test for hollow on bottom. Or thump the loaf. Does is have a hollow sound?
• Remove from oven and cool on racks to room temperature before cutting the bread.

WORLD'S BEST CINNAMON RAISIN BREAD (NOT BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Warm the milk in a small sauce pan on the stove until it just starts to bubble, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat.
• Let cool until lukewarm, about 120-125 degrees.
• Dissolve yeast in warm water and set aside until yeast is frothy, about 10 minutes or so (make sure your water is at the correct temperature or the yeast won't activate.) Then mix in eggs, sugar, butter salt and raisins (stir in the cooled milk slowly so you don't cook the eggs.) Add the flour gradually to make a stiff dough.
• Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface for a few minutes until smooth.
• Place in a large, buttered, mixing bowl and turn to grease the surface of the dough.
• Cover with a warm, damp cloth and let rise (I like to let my bread rise in the oven with the light on. It has just the right amount of heat and keeps the bread out of drafts.) Allow to rise until doubled, usually about 1 1/2 hours.
• Roll out on a lightly floured surface into a large rectangle 1/2 inch thick.
• Moisten the dough with 2 tablespoons milk and rub all over the dough with your hands.
• Mix together 1 cup of sugar and 3 tablespoons cinnamon and sprinkle mixture evenly on top of the moistened dough.
• Roll up tightly (the long way).
• The roll should be about 3 inches in diameter.
• Cut into thirds, and tuck under ends and pinch bottom together.
• Place loaves into well greased (you can use Crisco or butter for this) 9 x 5 inch pans and lightly grease tops of loaves.
• Let rise in warm place, uncovered, again for about an hour.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until loaves are lightly browned and sound hollow when tapped.
• Remove from oven and let cool on rack.
• Take melted butter and spread over tops of loaves.
• After about 20 minutes, lay loaves on their sides and remove from pans.
• Allow to cool before slicing.

SOURDOUGH CINNAMON RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• Place sourdough starter, egg, 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons margarine, flour, raisins, 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons sugar, and salt in a bread machine in that order. Run Dough cycle. Remove dough from the machine after the cycle is done, about 90 minutes.
• Place dough in a lightly greased bowl and cover with a towel. Place in a draft-free place to rise until doubled, 8 hours to overnight.
• Mix sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl.
• Turn dough out on a floured surface. Roll into a 9-inch wide rectangle about 1/2-inch thick. Brush milk over dough; sprinkle cinnamon-sugar on top. Roll dough up tightly into a log and place in a greased 9x5-inch loaf pan. Let rise until at least 1 inch above the rim of the pan, about 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake loaf in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 45 minutes.

SOURDOUGH CINNAMON RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• Add Sourdough Starter, water, salt, and maple syrup to a bowl, and mix with a dough whisk.
• Once mixed, add the flours, cinnamon, and raisins, and mix until combined.
• Cover mixing bowl and let sit for approximately 8 hours at room temp (~72F) or until volume of dough doubles [optionally stretch and fold periodically].
• Turn out fermented dough on a lightly floured work surface and shape into your preferred loaf (boule, batard...) and then place dough into a well floured (rice flour is preferred) proofing basket; cover and let sit at room temperature (~72F) for about 1 hour.
• After 30 minutes or so, place your preferred baking vessel (I used a Breadtopia Clay Baker) in the oven and preheat to 500F (or your vessel's maximum safe temperature).
• With dough fully risen and oven pre-heated, gently transfer the dough from the proofing basket to the baking vessel, score the top of the loaf, and then bake at 500F with top on for 20 minutes.
• Turn oven temperature down to 450F and bake for 10 minutes.
• Remove the top of the baking vessel and bake for ~20 minutes or until color of crust is as desired and internal loaf temperature is at least 200F.
• Take the loaf out of the oven and place it on a cooling rack and let it cool at least 1 hour before cutting.

SOURDOUGH CINNAMON RAISIN SWIRL BREAD

Steps:

• Starter/Levain Build
• Mix the starter, flour, and water in a jar. Mark the level with a rubber band and let ripen overnight. Use cold water and/or a higher feeding ratio in summertime so the levain doesn't finish all the food before morning.
• Final Dough Mixing and Bulk Fermentation
• Measure out the raisins and soak them in water while the dough rises.
• Mix the flours, water, levain, brown sugar, oil, salt, and 1 tsp of the cinnamon in a medium bowl. Cover and let rest 30 minutes.
• Do one round of stretching and folding, or another form of gluten development.
• Let the dough rise at room temperature until it has just about doubled in size. This can take anywhere from 4 to 10 hours depending on your starter strength and room/dough temperature. My dough needed 6.5 hours in a cool kitchen.
• Shaping and Final Proof
• Drain the raisins, lightly flour your work surface, and grease your loaf pan.
• Remove the dough from the bowl, and stretch and pat it out into a rectangle approx. 7" x 12". Sprinkle the remaining 3 tsp of cinnamon on the dough, and then add the drained raisins in a layer on top of the cinnamon.
• From a shorter edge, roll the dough into a tube and place it in your pan, seam-side down.
• Cover and proof the dough for 2-4 hours. You can also retard the dough overnight or longer, but make sure it has risen in the pan some at room temperature before refrigerating it. The dough is ready to bake when it has doubled or its highest part crests about a half-inch over the lip of a 9" x 5" x 2.75" pan.
• Baking
• Preheat your oven to 375°F for about 15 minutes with your oven rack in the second-from-the-bottom position.
• Brush the dough with water and load it into the oven.
• Bake for about 60 minutes or until the interior of the loaf is over 190F. Cover with foil if the top starts to brown too much.
• When the bread has finished baking, brush the top with oil or butter to keep it soft, and let it cool on a rack on one side to discourage settling of the crumb.
• You can store this bread in a plastic bag, beeswax wrap, or linen bag.