Banana Bread with Dried Apricot and Raisin

My first square loaf of bread!


Soo excited to open the lid and see the square bread for the first time!


This is the sliced bread itself. I made Banana bread with dried apricot and raisin. Such a hot sell to my loyal eaters at home? LoL

Banana Bread with Dried Apricot and Raisin

Ingredients
4 cups Bread Flour
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter milk
3 tbsp honey
1 egg
1tsp salt
12g yeast sachet
1tsp bread improver
1tbsp milk powder
3 mashed bananas

Heat the milk in micro slightly warm and add in yeast. Stir and let to sit for 5 to 7 minutes before use. In a bread machine, put in all dry ingredients first and follow by the wet ingredients. Set the machine to dough mode and let the machine to work its full cycle. When machine stopped, remove dough from the machine and punch it down on a floured surface. Lay grease baking paper inside the tin and put dough in (roll it to a longish shape, according to the size of your tin). Put the tin lid or towels over it and place in a warm place to prove for another 60 minutes or until twice in size. Bake in a preheated 200 c oven for 50 minutes. Remove from oven when done and set aside until cool before handling.

For hand kneading, same sequence is applied except dough has to be kneaded to a elastic dough, cover with damp cloth and prove for around 30 minutes. Follow by punching and knead to tin shape and prove for another 60 minutes.

Note: Baking tin with lid tends to take longer time to bake than open tin. 40 minutes for open tin