Fruit Bread from Paul Hollywood
Made on Good Friday, this bread is eaten throughout the Easter weekend, so you can throw the chocolates away.
Ingredients
- 500 g strong white flour plus extra for dusting
- 10 g salt
- 20 g yeast
- 75 g caster sugar
- 75 g butter softened
- 3 medium eggs beaten
- 300 ml milk and water mixed
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 50 g mandarin segments
- 75 g sultanas
- 60 g mixed peel
- 3 lemons zest of it
- 3 orange zest of it
Instructions
- Put the flour, salt, yeast, sugar, butter and eggs into a large bowl.
- Gradually add the milk and water mixture and bind the ingredients together for 3 minutes.
- Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes, then put the dough back in the bowl and leave for 11⁄2 hours to rise.
- Line a baking tray.
- Incorporate the cinnamon, mandarins, sultanas, mixed peel and zests into the dough, then divide the dough into two pieces and shape each into a ball.
- Flatten the balls to about 7.
- 5 cm/3 inches thick, then, using a knife, score each piece into eight equal segments.
- Place the dough on the baking tray and leave to rise for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/gas mark 7.
- Bake the breads for 20 minutes until golden brown, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
