Homemade Raisin Rolls. Raisin bread is a type of bread made with raisins and flavored with cinnamon. It is “usually a white flour or egg dough bread”. Aside from white flour, raisin bread is also made with other flours, such as oat flour or whole wheat flour. Some recipes include honey, brown sugar, eggs, or butter. Variations of the recipe include the addition of walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans or, for a dessert, rum or whisky.
Raisin bread is eaten in many different forms, including being served toasted for breakfast (“raisin toast”) or made into sandwiches. Some restaurants serve raisin bread with their cheeseboards
Homemade Raisin Rolls
Ingredients
- 2-1/4 tsp or 1 pkg. (1/4 oz.) active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup warm water, 95 to 110 degrees F
- 1/2 cup milk, room temp.
- 2Tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp soft butter
- 1 cup raisins
- 3 cups bread flour
Directions
- In large bowl, mix together yeast and warm water and let sit for 10 minutes.
- Stir in milk, sugar, salt, and butter. Add raisins.
- Mix in 2-1/2 cups of flour.
- Turn dough out onto floured board and knead, adding flour a tablespoon at a time as needed until dough is soft, not sticky.
- Place dough in greased bowl. Grease all sides of the dough.
- Cover bowl with clean dishtowel and let rise in warm, place for about 1 hour or until double in size.
- Punch down dough and knead on lightly floured board for about 5 minutes.
- Divide dough into 10 pieces. Shape into small buns.
- Grease a large baking sheet.
- Place rolls on sheet, cover, and let rise in warm, until they become round and slightly larger.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees F.
