Ann's Lil World: Ann's Raisin Bread

Good morning. What could be better than waking up to the aroma of warm baked bread ? Blissed.

I'm the proud owner of this breadmaker machine since three or four years ago. Never made full use of it due to laziness.

Out of the blue, I began to have this urge to bake some bread this day. Bought all the neccesary baking products like High Protein Flour [RM8.10] which can be divided into two session. The neccesities like yeast [RM0.80] and bread improver [RM1.60] can be used several times coz only a small quantity needed eah time. Other items are butter, salt and sugar. Have some CNY left over raisins, so decided to dump them in.

The night before @ 11pm, I measured carefully and placed all ingredients into bread machine pan. Waited for it to kneed the dough on it's own for a good 20 mins. Then add raisins at the beeping sound of the Raisin/Nut signal 10 minutes before the last kneading cycle ends. After that, I could go to bed leaving the duty to the machine from waiting period (expansion of da dough) to baking. I could sleep peacefully knowingly that my faithful breadmaker could give perfect job.

Nice aroma of the freshly baked loaf filled the netire house. So sweet....! So refreshing.  Just found out this info courtesy of wiki.answer.com

How does the smell come along ? The molecules of the bread want to spread throughout the entire premise because it would be too crowded in one area. This process is called diffusion.

I removed the bread onto a stainless steel plate,allowing it to cool down. It'll be alot more easier to slice when cool. But I simply can't resist to taste it. Hot bun, the crisp...yummy. Overall, the bread was not so successful but it taste okay. Spreading butter onto it or simply eat it just the way it was.

The process in photo sequence.

The dough...can you spot the raisins..?