Breakfast Bread, like Publix, for bread machine
Publix makes a wonderful breakfast bread that they can't keep in stock. Filled with dried fruit, this recipe is easy to make with a breadmaker.
Equipment
- 1 breadmaker
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 2 1/4 tsp 1 packet instant yeast
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tbsp plum pastry filling (see below)
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 egg beaten
Dry Ingredients
- 3-3 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp wheat gluten
Dried Fruit and Nuts
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
- 3 tbsp dried cranberries
- 3 tbsp dried apricots, chopped
- 3 tbsp dried apples, chopped
Instructions
Wet Ingredients
- In a mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water and mix well. Add 3/4 cup more warm water, plum filling, oil, sugar, honey, salt, cinnamon and egg. Mix well. Pour into bottom of bread machine.
Dry Ingredients
- Add the flour and wheat gluten on top of the wet ingredients in the bread machine. Set the bread machine to REGULAR WHITE BREAD CYCLE, 1 1/2 POUND LOAF, MEDIUM CRUST.Monitor dough as it mixes for the first few minutes and add more flour or water as needed, a tablespoon at a time, to form a smooth ball of dough. It should be firm enough to hold its own shape and not sticky. It should not be so dry that it is crumbly.
Dried Fruit & Nuts
- Mix the fruit and nuts together in a bowl. Add to bread machine when it beeps to add dried fruit near the end of the kneading cycle. This usually happens 5 to 10 minutes before the end of the dough kneading cycle. After bread is baked, remove from bread machine and baking basket. Allow to cool before slicing.Makes one 1 1/2 pound loaf of Breakfast Bread like Publix makes.
Notes
I make the plum pastry filling ahead and freeze several packets in two tablespoons each.