Fruit bread
Description
The baking is simple and quick. Making fruit bread is very easy; no special skills are required. Combine all the ingredients and bake a tasty and healthy loaf, and the step‑by‑step instructions will help you do it. It can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
- 2
Step 2
Sift the flour, add the baking powder and cinnamon, and mix.
- 3
Step 3
Thoroughly rinse and dry the dried fruits with a paper towel.
- 4
Step 4
Chop the dried fruits and soak them in rum or cognac.
- 5
Step 5
Chop the nuts with a knife.
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Step 6
Zest one lemon.
- 7
Step 7
Peel the apples and remove the cores, cut them into small cubes.
- 8
Step 8
Combine in one bowl dried fruits, nuts, flax and sesame seeds, oat flakes, pour in water and vegetable oil, and add a pinch of salt.
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Step 9
Add the flour mixture and knead the dough by hand; it will be very dense, and that's how it should be.
- 10
Step 10
Moisten the work surface of the table with water, place the dough, shape a loaf.
- 11
Step 11
Grease the pan with vegetable oil and place the bread dough into it, bake at 200 °C for about an hour.
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Step 12
Remove the bread from the pan and cool it on a rack to room temperature.
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Step 13
The cooled fruit bread can be dusted with powdered sugar.
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Step 14
The bread is ready.