Day 27: Fruited Sourdough Sandwich Bread

This is my favorite sandwich bread. Instead of letting my mom make it this time, I decided to help out as well!

This is another King Arthur recipe, just like the rolls from Fancy Eggs in a Basket. Thus, I won't need to comment as much here because the recipe itself is extremely thorough.

The Ingredients

We just used unfed sourdough, and used the full 4 tablespoons of sugar, mainly just to use up all the rest of the raw sugar we had. 

We also add walnuts to our bread. Mmmm.

We doubled our recipe to make two loaves!

The Process

Obviously cut up your apples first, because no one actually just has a cup of chopped apples laying around.



We put the dry ingredients with the starter, then add water as we begin to mix it. However, to help our mixer manage this huge quantity of dough (remember, we doubled), we put in only half the flour and water at first, then add the rest once the first portion has been pretty well mixed in. We also added a little more water than called for, as my mom prefers this dough even wetter than it already is.



Once the flour and water have been mostly incorporated, add the apples. Once all of the flour and the apples have been mixed in, add the raisins and walnuts.

This is what your dough should look like. Ours is slightly tinged blue because of the walnuts.
To avoid this coloration, toast your walnuts. (But I personally think it's cool. Plus I'm too lazy to add another whole step.)

Let the dough rise.

Though if you double the recipe, you might want to consider moving the dough to a bigger bowl, or else you'll have a huge dough-y explosion catastrophe.

To cover the dough in the pans, we just used one shower cap suspended by a chopstick for both loaves.
You could also easily use a large ziploc bag.

Let the dough rise again, then bake!

The Final Product

Some Notes

The bread is a little bit purple, again because of the walnuts. And again, I think this is cool. But I definitely got comments when I'd take this bread to lunch about the weird, somewhat concerning color.

If I Could Do It Again....

Maybe use a little less water. We used a little bit too much over what they suggested.

And use a bigger bowl for letting the dough rise. Definitely use a bigger bowl.

The Final Verdict

This bread is so goood. Fruity and nutty and sweet. And a cool color to boot! Great on it's own, or toasted, or for a PB&J. Seriously just great no matter what.

It's also nice to be able to use the unfed sourdough starter.

So if you have any sourdough started, you definitely need to make this bread! If not, you should consider starting some, because it is great for so many different recipes.