Description
This is a sweet bread that seems quite fancy and is actually not much more work than a simple French loaf. I went to an Irish bakery once and they had apricot bread. In my imagination, this is the recipe I was thinking of so I made this up when the Irish bakery didn’t read my mind.
Ingredients
- 1 ⅜ cups water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- ½ cup dried apricots, quartered
- 4 cups bread flour
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
Instructions
- Place water
- olive oil
- and salt into one side of a bread machine. Place 1/3 of the apricots on top of this fluid mixture with 2 cups of flour. Place more apricots in the middle of the flour
- pour remaining flour on top
- followed by remaining apricots. This will help weaker bread machines integrate the apricots.
- Run French loaf cycle for a 2-pound loaf. Remove from the machine after the cycle is done
- about 3 1/2 hours.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 3 hrs 30 mins
Total Time: 3 hrs 50 mins
Servings: 12