Raisin Bran Bread

Hello, Darlings

Today, I wanted to try something new. As my followers know, I created and posted the recipe Kellogg's Honey Hazelnut Raisin Bran Muffins. Well, I wanted to make the muffins, but I discovered that I am out of hazelnut meal, so while browsing through one of my bread maker recipe books; I found a recipe for making Raisin Bran Bread. Who new! 

Anyway, I decided to give the recipe a try. From the pictures below you can see that the bread turned out quite well. However, I believe some additional fruit and perhaps some nuts would perp up the taste and its nutritional value. I will try it next time.

Because, the book where the recipe is found is still in publication, I am posting a couple of links to it below.

• Amazon: Bread Maker Cookbook: 400 Recipes by Eloise Bourn
• eBay: Bread Maker Cookbook: 400 Recipes by Eloise Bourn

 

The book's cover appears changed over the years, but I think it is the same one. The cover from above is from my copy (recipe page 125), and the one on the below is from the current store copy.

Until next time, 

     Chow, Darlings  

  A Widescreen Online Review Plus Article@2026 

White Bread, Dryer to the Rescue

Hello, Darlings

If you are among my long time followers, then you know that when it comes to baking bread I recommend adding to teaspoon of wheat gluten to the recipe. 

Well today, I nearly had a baking disaster because I forgot to add the gluten to the Hamilton Beach two-pounder white bread recipe. The dough was about to start its third kneading cycle when it dawned on me that there was no gluten in the dough. 

In a near panic, I removed the dough from the bread maker, and kneaded in the gluten by hand. I then rolled the dough in a little more flour because it felt sticky. After shaping the dough for its return to the bread maker, I set it to the dough setting, so that that the gluten could be kneaded into the dough properly. 

After the bread maker was midway through its final 45 minute rising cycle, I noticed that the bread had only risen less than half way, so I removed the pan from the bread maker and placed it in my hot clothes dryer for 21 minutes, to which, afterwards the dough rose to nearly the top of the bread pan. Once the dough had risen, I placed the bread pan back into the bread maker, and set it to the bake cycle. I let the bread bake for an hour. Once the cycle was done, I set the bread maker on the bake cycle again to bake the bread an additional ten minutes to ensure its doneness.

As a result of all this, not only did I save the bread, it is the tastiest loaf of white bread that I made using my Hamilton Beach bread maker so far, and I credit my quick thinking and my GE clothes dryer for my successful white bread rescue.

Until, next time,

   Chow, Darlings 

 A Widescreen Online Review Plus Article@2026