Rosemary–Golden Raisin Bread

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    round loaf
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

I go wild for this bread, even though at one time I didn’t like rosemary in bread. A small amount of rosemary, never more, adds just a hint of herbal flavor to this unusual Italian egg bread, often served for Easter. Pane rosmarino is baked in the oven so that its crust can turn a luscious dark brown.

Ingredients

1½- or 2-pound-loaf machines

  • 3 cups bread flour
  • 1 teaspoon dried rosemary

Method

  1. In the workbowl of a food processor, combine 1 cup of the flour with the rosemary. Pulse to pulverize the rosemary.
  2. Place the ingredients, including the rosemary flour but not the raisins, in the pan according to the order in the manufacturer’s instructions. Program for the Dough cycle; press Start.
  3. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. When the m