Name: Spiced fruit bread
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 250 ml warm milk; 100 g brown sugar; 1 egg yolk; 1 large (61 g) egg, beaten; 25 g fresh yeast; ½ teaspoon freshly ground allspice; 500 g bread flour; ½ teaspoon freshly ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon sea salt; ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 50 g pitted dates; 100 g dried apricots; 100 g seedless raisins; boiling water; 50 g dried figs

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Spice

By Christine Manfield

Published 1999

About

This is a bread you either make for breakfast to have with lashings of pure butter or to have with poached fruits and lots of clotted cream for dessert, whatever your preference. Either way, it tastes fantastic and is very straightforward to make.

Ingredients

50 g dried figs
50 g pitted dates
100 g

Method

Slice figs, dates and apricots into a bowl, then add raisins. Pour in boiling water to cover fruit and leave for 5 minutes. Strain fruit, discarding water.
Mix flour, salt, spices and reconstituted fruit in bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook.
Dissolve yeast and brown sugar in warm milk, then stir in beaten egg. Add yeast mixture to flo

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