Easy Bread Recipe

I make this the night before a Sunday brunch...Just nuke each serving for
10 -15 seconds. Or nuke the whole thing on a plate for 30 seconds...Yum!

Apple Raisin Breakfast Yummies

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup molasses

1/4 cup honey

1/2 cup raisins

1 large apple, peeled, cored and diced

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

2 cans refrigerated rolls, or 1 can of the "Grandes" size

cinnamon sugar, 1 part cinnamon, 1 part granulated sugar

Place a 12 inch Dutch oven over 7-8 coals and melt the butter. Stir in brown sugar, molasses, and honey. 

Add the raisins, diced apple, and the nuts.

Snugly place as many rolls as you need to cover the brown sugar mixture edge to edge in the oven.

Sprinkle the rolls liberally with cinnamon sugar.

Add 14-16 coals to the lid and bake for about 35-40 minutes.  Check and when the rolls begin to turn

golden brown remove from the heat. Let the oven cool to room temperature and flip it over onto a trivet. Remove oven and serve from the lid.

Serves 8-10

Enjoy!
Bruce & Vickie

Recipes

I'll start to publish a few recipes next week...If you have a favorite let me know though the comments section of the blog. And, do you want the backyard variety or the super high end recipes? Or in between?
Bruce Tracy
The Dutch Oven Baker

Liquids, sweeteners, salt and fats

Liquids...Water and milk are the most commonly used liquids. Water gives bread a crispier crust; milk provides a velvety texture and a bit of milk fat.
Sweeteners...Sugar, honey and molasses provide food for the yeast and encourage faster growth. Each enhances the flavor of the bread in it's own way and helps brown the crust.
Avoid artificial sweeteners as they don’t provide the sugar the yeast needs to do the job.
Salt...Salt inhibits the yeast and prevents the dough from rising too much too fast. Forgetting the salt may cause the bread to collapse if you let it rise too long. If you reduce the salt in a recipe, you’ll need to decrease both rising times, too.
It also seasons the finished bread.
Fat...Butter and vegetable oil make bread tender.
In addition to tenderness, butter adds flavor.