Homemade bread with dried fruits
Description
If you're curious, serve it cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
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Step 1
Take any dried fruits you have on hand. Chop them into very small pieces and place them in a bowl. Heat the brandy in a saucepan and pour the hot alcohol over the dried fruits. Let them soak.
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Step 2
In a container of your choice, warm the water to a lukewarm temperature and add molasses, granulated sugar, and yeast. Stir all ingredients thoroughly and leave them in a warm place.
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Step 3
Pour water with yeast and odorless vegetable oil into the bread machine bowl. Add the brandy that the dried fruits did not absorb.
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Step 4
Sift the flour through a sieve to aerate it, so that the bread becomes fluffy and soft. Mix in cocoa, salt, and sunflower seeds into the flour. Then combine the liquid ingredients with the dry ones.
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Step 5
Roll the dried fruits in a small amount of flour. Then add them and the seeds to the main dough mixture. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
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Step 6
Knead a pliable dough. If you don't have a bread machine, you can do this by hand. Let the dough rest until it rises. Then shape it into a ball and make cuts on top. Bake the bread in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for fifty minutes, or in a bread machine using the "Bread" setting.