So yesterday, when I baked a successful loaf with a new recipe I was super EXCITED! This bread is soooo delicious, not to mention the amazing cinnamon aroma that fills your house while it's baking! I don't like the way the jelly roll is kind of coming apart, but I'm going to try this recipe in a smaller pan and see if that fixes that problem.
This is another Bernard Clayton recipe which I altered slightly as I do everything these days.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups boiling water
3 Tablespoons brown sugar (his recipe calls for honey, but I was out)
1 Tablespoon molasses (his recipe calls for brown sugar, which I actually increased)
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 mini box of raisins, I would guess about 1/4 cup (Bernard calls for 1/2 cup)
1 package rapid dry yeast
2 eggs, room temperature (put them in a bowl of hot tap water for a few minutes if they're fresh out of the fridge)
4 to 5 cups bread flour (I ended up using almost exactly 4 cups)
3 Tablespoons melted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
4 rounded teaspoons ground cinnamon (he called for 2 Tablespoons)
Directions:
Grease 2 medium (8x4") loaf pans.
In a large bowl, mix together the rolled oats and boiling water. Stir to blend, add the butter, brown sugar, molasses, salt and raisins. Let stand for a few moments to be certain the oats have absorbed the water.
Let the mixture cool to no more than 130 degrees F. (That's because the rapid yeast requires that high temperature to activate it) This cooling doesn't take more than a minute or two, so keep a close eye on the temp. This is not the time to go off and drink some coffee.
Add the yeast, eggs and 2 cups flour. With a wooden spoon stir vigorously for 2-3 minutes, or use your mixer (mine is broken...so sad).
Work in additional flour, 1/2 cup at a time, with the spoon first and then with your hands. Once the dough starts holding together and cleaning the sides of the bowl, turn out onto a floured surface. (I added 1 1/2 cups of flour before I had to turn it out). Knead with a strong push-turn-fold rhythm. Add more flour if the dough is slack or sticky. Knead for 8 minutes.
Put the dough in a buttered bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Set the bowl of dough aside to rise until at least double in size, about 1 hour. I turn my oven on to the lowest temperature (for me thats 170) and as soon as the oven reaches that temperature I turn it off. I let my dough rise in that warm oven. It's too cold in my house to do otherwise in the winter.
Turn the dough out and divide into 2 equal pieces. Roll out each piece into a rectangular shape about 8 x 12". Spread half the melted butter over each piece.
In a separate bowl, mix 1/2 cup sugar and 2 rounded teaspoons of cinnamon. Sprinkle over butter on one rolled piece. Repeat this step with the second piece.
Roll each piece up jelly-roll fashion. Place in prepared loaf pans seam side down. Press dough into corners with fingertips.
Cover the pans loosely with wax paper and set aside to rise. The center of the dough should be just above the edge of the pan.
Thanks for stopping by, and if you have any ideas why my baked goods have been falling on me, I'd love to hear your theories!
Till later,
Kelly
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