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Kefir "Fruit Cake" Bread




Source of Recipe


whitedesertrose2000


Recipe Introduction


This recipe is a very nutritious sweet bread and it looks like a rich fruit cake but has a unique taste to it.

Yield - 3 loaves



List of Ingredients




8oz dried apricots, unsulfured if possible
3 or 4 very ripe bananas
8oz seedless raisins
6oz walnuts, roughly chopped
2.2 lbs whole wheat or spelt bread flour
9oz unbleached all purpose flour
4 tablespoons of melted butter or virgin coconut oil
4 tablespoons of honey
1 teaspoon sea salt
3 teaspoons baking soda
20 oz kefir or natural yoghurt

Recipe



200º C / 400º F

Start by cooking the apricots in as little water as possible. When soft, drain off and save the cooking liquor to mash the bananas in. Add the raisins and walnuts to the cooked apricots and reserve. Grease very well 3 bread loaf tins. In a big bowl mix the flours together with the salt and soda and stir in the honey and butter and then the bananas blended in the cooking liquid; add the apricot/ raisin/ walnut mix and work the dough quickly. Add the kefir slowly so that you end up with a dough ‘just’ moist and homogeneous. Quickly divide the dough in 3 parts and pat it in the prepared tins. Place in the very hot oven and bake at 200º C (400 F) for 30 minutes, then a further 20 minutes or so at 150º C (300 F). Do not let it burn, when it sounds hollow it is ready. Leave to cool outside the pans at room temperature.

It will keep fairly well but if it gets a bit dry then serve toasted with butter or soft cheese.