Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Bread Recipes

CINNAMON RAISIN SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• Take out about 1-2 tablespoons of your starter from the fridge and mix it with 50 grams of room temperature water and 50 grams of flour (sifted bread flour, whole grain, spelt, or a combo - whatever you prefer as long as the flour to water ratio is 1:1).
• Cover the bowl with a plate and leave it on the counter to ferment overnight for approximately 8-12 hours.
• Once your levain is ready, combine 100 grams of the levain with 375 grams of water. Add the flour to the water mixture and, using your hands, mix to combine.
• Once the dough is mixed, cover with a tea towel and let sit at room temperature for 40 minutes to rest. Meanwhile, soak the raisins in room temperature water (make sure the raisins are covered with at least an inch of water).
• After the elapsed 40 minute resting time, add the salt. Mix well until combined. Drain the raisins and mix them into the dough along with the cinnamon.
• To do this get your hands damp and reach under the dough on the opposite side of the bowl from you.
• Pull the dough up and over towards you.
• Repeat this so the side closest to you folds over to the side away from you and the side on your left folds towards you right, and your right folds towards your left. Think of it as wrapping a package.
• Then, scoop your hands under the ball of dough and flip it over completely. This completes one "fold".
• Complete 6 more folds (one fold every 30 minutes) for 3 hours total.
• Begin by taking the dough out of the bowl and letting it rest on the counter for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare your banneton by dusting it with flour, or layer a clean tea towel in a medium mixing bowl and dust liberally with flour (50-50 wheat flour and rice flour is a great dusting combo).
• Shape your dough making sure you get as much surface tension as possible without tearing the outside of the loaf.
• Once shaped, turn the loaf into the lined and floured bowl or banneton (top-down, seam side up).
• Gently flour the top (previously the bottom) of the dough before covering with the edges of the tea towel. Set in the fridge overnight.
• The next day place your dutch oven in the oven and preheat to 500°F (260°C) or as hot as your oven can go, but no higher than 500°F (260°C).
• After the oven has come to temperature, let the dutch oven continue to preheat for another 30 minutes.
• Once the dutch oven has been preheated, take your bread out of the fridge.
• Gently invert the dough onto a piece of parchment paper that will be large enough to lift your bread into and out of the dutch oven.
• Gently score the bread with a sharp knife or bread lame.
• Using oven mitts, carefully remove the dutch oven from the oven, take off the lid and then carefully lift the dough into the pot using the parchment paper.
• Using oven mitts, carefully place the lid back on the dutch oven and put the entire dutch oven back into the heated oven.
• Reduce the heat to 230°C (450°F) and bake for 20 minutes. Carefully remove the lid (be careful of steam) and bake for another 20-25 minutes with the lid off.
• Remove the pot from the oven and carefully lift out the loaf using the edges of the parchment paper and let cool completely on a wire rack.
• If heat makes it too difficult to extract the dough and parchment layer safely, just let the loaf cool in the Dutch oven - don't risk burning yourself.

SOURDOUGH CINNAMON RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• Place sourdough starter, egg, 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons margarine, flour, raisins, 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons sugar, and salt in a bread machine in that order. Run Dough cycle. Remove dough from the machine after the cycle is done, about 90 minutes.
• Place dough in a lightly greased bowl and cover with a towel. Place in a draft-free place to rise until doubled, 8 hours to overnight.
• Mix sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl.
• Turn dough out on a floured surface. Roll into a 9-inch wide rectangle about 1/2-inch thick. Brush milk over dough; sprinkle cinnamon-sugar on top. Roll dough up tightly into a log and place in a greased 9x5-inch loaf pan. Let rise until at least 1 inch above the rim of the pan, about 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake loaf in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 45 minutes.