Welsh Bread

Photo: flickr user WordRidden

Ingredients

1 medium loaf:

teaspoon white vinegar distilled

1 cup milk

3 tablespoons brown sugar

1 egg white

1 egg

6 tablespoons unsalted butter

teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons molasses

3 cups bread flour

teaspoon baking soda

teaspoon caraway seed

teaspoon active dry yeast

1 cup raisins

Preparation

Ingredient Small Loaf: distilled white vinegar 1 tspmilk 2/3 c brown sugar 2 Twhole egg 1egg white 0unsalted butter 4 Tsalt 1/2 tspmolasses 2 Tbread flour 2 cbaking soda pinchcaraway seeds 1 tspactive dry yeast 1.5 tspraisins 3/4 c

Stir the vinegar into the milk. Let stand about 30 min, until the mixture thickens.

Add ingredients (except raisins) but including the vinegar and milk, in the order suggested by your bread machine manual and process on the bread cycle according to the manufacturer's directions.

At the beeper (or at the end of the first kneading in the Panasonic, Sanyo, and National, or after 40 min from "start" for Toastmaster) add the raisins.

= Notes =This bread rises more slowly than other breads in the machine so I use the

"sweet bread cycle."

NOTES : This is just about my favorite bread. Mimi Hiller transformed the recipe for conventional methods (i.e., using a Kitchen Aid) but it's too long to include here. The non-ABM users can find it at my site Cyber-Kitchen.