Golden Egg Bread with Dried Fruit

By broots

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup water
• 2 eggs
• 6 tablespoons corn oil (I used walnut oil)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 2/3 cup dried cranberries, dried cherries or raisins
• 3 cups bread flour (+)
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant or bread machine yeast or 1/4 ounce pkg active dry yeast

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from salad-in-a-jar.com

Preparation

Step 1

Place ingredients in bread machine pan in order given. (If desired, add the fruit at the end of the kneading cycle–see discussion above.) See tutorial here if you are inexperienced with a bread machine. Add additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time if necessary to make dough thick enough to make a ball and barely clean the sides.
Set machine on dough cycle. When complete, dough should be doubled in size. If not, let it continue to rise in the machine.
Remove from pan and roll into rectangle shape with the short dimension slightly longer than your pan. Starting with long side, use your hands to roll into a cylinder shape. Tuck ends under and carefully place roll in a 9 x 4-inch loaf pan. Cover loosely with a clean towel and allow to rise in warm place until almost double. (May take as long as an hour or more.)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake until cooked through and crust is golden brown–approx 45 minutes. If necessary, cover with aluminum foil during last third of cooking time to protect from over browning. Internal temperature will reach 180-190 degrees when it is done. Let sit on the counter 5 minutes before removing from pan. Cool on a cooling rack.