Baking Cinnamon Raisin Bread

[Bribarian]

Hey my first post here, cool forum. I should have joined ages ago when baking became a hobby of mine.

Anyways, I've gotten pretty good at baking bread. I am looking into making cinnamon raisin bread.

I don't use a bread machine so I knead it by hand, my question is when do I add the raisins into the recipe? Can I add the raisins before kneading the bread? Or when is the best time to do that?

 

[Norcalbaker59]

Hey my first post here, cool forum. I should have joined ages ago when baking became a hobby of mine.

Anyways, I've gotten pretty good at baking bread. I am looking into making cinnamon raisin bread.

I don't use a bread machine so I knead it by hand, my question is when do I add the raisins into the recipe? Can I add the raisins before kneading the bread? Or when is the best time to do that?

Hello and welcome.

Add the raisins after all the kneading is complete and the dough is really for bulk rise. Add-in will tear the gluten network, so alway soak the add-in some liquid, then drain and pat dry before adding. Especially if they are any kind of seeds. I normally roll my add-ins during shaping, the very last minute. But you don’t have to.


Cooks Illustrated video on making their raisin swirl bread. You can’t get to the recipe, but another site posted it. They do a babka twist which I don’t care for on a raisin loaf. But the baker in the link below uses their recipe and just leaves the loaves whole.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread | Cook's Illustrated

<p>To rid this bread of its dense crumb, leaking filling, and huge gaps, we had to engineer a lofty dough and a sticky filling—and then find the right shaping method.</p>

www.cooksillustrated.com

This baker doesn’t split the dough and twist it. I like the look of her loaf a lot better.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread

Light and airy homemade Cinnamon Swirl Bread with raisins. This fun and easy baking project yields two delicious loaves. Freeze one to enjoy later!

www.savingdessert.com

 

[Bribarian]

Thank you NorCalBaker
Going to try it out tonight.

 

[Norcalbaker59]

Bake with Jack just came out with this lovely looking fruit loaf.

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