Bread Machine Fruit Loaf

Total Time: 3 hrs 32 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 22 mins

Ingredients

• 270 ml water
• 6 teaspoons butter or 6 teaspoons oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 6 teaspoons brown sugar
• 450 g bread flour (3 cups)
• 6 teaspoons powdered milk
• 3 teaspoons ground mixed spice
• 2 teaspoons yeast
• 1/2 cup mixed dried fruit (i use sultanas and raisins, but you could use commercial mixed fruit or currants)
• 3 tablespoons water (optional)
• 6 teaspoons sugar (optional)
• 3 teaspoons gelatin (optional)

Recipe

• 1 put all of the ingredients except the fruit in the order recommended by your manufacturer.
• 2 if you have a nuts dispenser place the fruit in there.
• 3 otherwise add the fruit when the 2nd knead has 8 minutes to go.
• 4 if using the glaze, combine glaze ingredients in a small saucepan over a heat until the sugar and gelatine has dissolved.
• 5 use the pause function if you have one, at fifteen minutes into the baking cycle, brush glaze over loaf.