Raisin Casserole Bread

Category
 1 cup milk
 ½ cup sugar
 1 tsp salt
 ¼ cup butter (1/2 stick)
 ½ cup warm water (105-115 f degrees)
 1 egg
 4 ½ cups sifted flour
 1 cup seedless rasins
 2 packages of cakes active dry or compressed yeast
1

Scald milk; stir in sugar and margarine or butter; cool to lukewarm.

2

Measure warm water into large bowl (I warm the bowl with warm water).
Sprinkle or crumble in yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in lukewarm milk mixture, egg and 3 cups flour; beat until smooth.

3

Stir in remaining flour to make a stiff batter. Cover; let rise in warm place, free from draft, until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.

4

Stir batter down. Beat in raisins. Turn into 2 greased one – quart casseroles. (Or bread loaf pans. (Whole seed). Press seed into the top of the bread so it sticks into the bread.
For bakery-look brush top with either egg white or beaten whole egg. Sprinkle with Black Seed.

5

Bake in preheated oven. When taken from the oven and done baking, let cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan. Good served warm with butter spread on slice and a cup of coffee.

Ingredients

 1 cup milk
 ½ cup sugar
 1 tsp salt
 ¼ cup butter (1/2 stick)
 ½ cup warm water (105-115 f degrees)
 1 egg
 4 ½ cups sifted flour
 1 cup seedless rasins
 2 packages of cakes active dry or compressed yeast

Directions

1

Scald milk; stir in sugar and margarine or butter; cool to lukewarm.

2

Measure warm water into large bowl (I warm the bowl with warm water).
Sprinkle or crumble in yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in lukewarm milk mixture, egg and 3 cups flour; beat until smooth.

3

Stir in remaining flour to make a stiff batter. Cover; let rise in warm place, free from draft, until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.

4

Stir batter down. Beat in raisins. Turn into 2 greased one – quart casseroles. (Or bread loaf pans. (Whole seed). Press seed into the top of the bread so it sticks into the bread.
For bakery-look brush top with either egg white or beaten whole egg. Sprinkle with Black Seed.

5

Bake in preheated oven. When taken from the oven and done baking, let cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan. Good served warm with butter spread on slice and a cup of coffee.

Notes

Raisin Casserole Bread