Lammas Raisin Bread
Total Time: 4 hrs 10 mins
Preparation Time: 3 hrs 10 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 5 cups water
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2/3 cup wheat germ
- 2 (2 tablespoon) packages dry yeast
- 6 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 cups white flour
Recipe
- 1 cook the oats in 4 cups boiling water until they are just soft about 5-10 minute
- 2 stir in honey, salt, and wheat germ.
- 3 allow to cool to lukewarm.
- 4 dissolve yeast in 1 cup warm water and stir into oats with 3 cups of the wheat flour.
- 5 beat this sponge with wooden spoon for a few minutes.
- 6 cover bowl with tea towel.
- 7 let rise in warm, draft-free place for 1 hour or until doubled volume.
- 8 stir down sponge.
- 9 stir in raisins & remaining 3 cups wheat flour.
- 10 sprinkle 1 cup white flour over a flat surface and turn the dough out it.
- 11 sprinkle the second cup of white flour on top of the dough and carefully begin kneading.
- 12 knead for about 10 min or until smooth and elastic.
- 13 form into ball.
- 14 put in large, buttered bowl.
- 15 turn so it is evenly buttered.
- 16 cover with tea towel and put the dough away to rise for another hour or until doubled in volume.
- 17 punch down.
- 18 cut into 4 even parts.
- 19 form each into a loaf and place in 4 buttered medium-size pans.
- 20 cover with tea towels.
- 21 let rise for about ½ hour.
- 22 bake in preheated oven at 400f for 15 min, then turn heat down to 350f and bake for another 30-40 minute.
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