Recipe of Award-winning Soft Chewy Braided Raisin Bread

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Soft Chewy Braided Raisin Bread is 2 loaves. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook Soft Chewy Braided Raisin Bread using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

How to make Soft, Moist, and Chewy Raisin Bread
It's an all-in-one mix method that puts butter in advance! This raisin bread is sweet and delicious and is going to keep you satisfied for a long time. You should just try it!

Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make Soft Chewy Braided Raisin Bread:

1. used KitchenAid Artisan 3.3L to knead the dough
2. 350 g (12.3 oz) bread flour
3. 5 g (1 and 2/3 tsp) instant dry yeast
4. 50 g (1.8 oz) granulated sugar
5. 7 g (1 and 1/3) salt
6. 105 g (3.7 oz) water
7. 105 g (3.7 oz) milk
8. 40 g (1.4 oz) unsalted butter, room temperature, softened
9. 130 g (4.6 oz) raisins
10. egg for brushing
11. Baking temperature and time
12. 200 ℃ / 392 F for 22 minutes
13. Preheating; 220℃ / 428 F

Instructions to make Soft Chewy Braided Raisin Bread

1. My You tube Recipe Channel→ Fumie's Recipe
   https://youtu.be/1nlsSFR8dyE
2. Soak raisins in lukewarm water to soften for 15 minutes. Then drain it, and pat it dry with a paper towel. The dry raisins will absorb the water from the bread dough, so don't forget to soften them.
3. Put bread flour, yeast, and sugar in a large bowl and stir well. Then add salt and stir.
4. Mix water and milk, and warm it until 30℃ / 86 F in the microwave (600 W, around 20 seconds).
   Pour about 3/4 of the milk water over the flour mixture while drawing circles. Roughly mix and pour the remaining milk water over dry places, and mix roughly.
5. Add softened butter, and use your hands to knead it until the dough comes together while pressing it against the bowl.
   Use a stand mixer (I used KitchenAid) to knead it for 2 minutes at speed 3. Then knead it for 10 minutes at speed 4 until smooth and sticky.
6. Put the dough onto a work surface, flatten it, and spread the raisins over. Fold the dough and sandwich the raisins, and knead to mix the raisins.
   Put it in a lightly oiled deep-sided container or bowl. Cover the container with a lid or plastic wrap and let it rise at 35℃ / 95 F (or a warm place) for 60-90 minutes until doubled in size.
7. Take it out on the work surface, press it to flatten, and divide it into 4 equal parts.
8. Gently pull each to form a landscape rectangle. Please flour the work surface if necessary.
   Roll it up gently from the back toward the front while pressing lightly. Lightly pinch the seams.
9. Lightly flour and roll gently while sometimes pulling to form a 45 cm / 17.7 inches long rope.
   Use 2 ropes to a loaf of braided bread, so make 2 loaves.
10. [Step 1]
    Place 1st rope with the right side diagonally up. Then put 2nd rope on top in an "X" shape.
    
    [Step 2]
    Lift the 1st rope and cross it. (Right to left, left to right, in that order)
11. [Step 3]
    The upper rope to ''the right forked space".
    The far left rope to ''the right forked space".
12. [Step 4]
    The far right rope to ''the right forked space".
    The far left rope to ''the right forked space".
    Repeat only step 4. Finally, pinch the edges to stick together.
13. Let it rise at 35℃ / 95 F (or a warm place) for 20-30 minutes until rises a little about 1.3 times in size. Preheat an oven to 220℃ / 428 F.
14. Brush on the top with egg wash. Turn down the oven to 200 ℃ / 392 F and bake it for 22 minutes until golden brown. Let it cool on a rack.

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