Buccellato Di Lucca – Italian Raisin Bread Recipe – #BreadBakers

This month’s host for Bread Bakers is Sneha and she chose grapes as the theme. You can use grapes in any form in the bread, either as whole, or as wine or as raisins. I chose to make a raisin bread from Italy. When I was searching for raisin breads, the name Buccellato Di Lucca caught my attention. There is one more Buccellato available in Italy and that is a dry fruits filled ring type flaky pastry. But this Buccellato Di Lucca from the region of Lucca is a bread made with raisins and it used to be the favourite of Roman army. Sometimes they were made as huge as a Romal cart wheel.

Nowadays the bread still retains the ring shape, but some make it as a straight loaf too, so that it is easy to carry. Anise adds a good flavour to the bread. The bread is sweet and filled with raisins and is soft inside while the crust is nice and crisp. The whole dough is made with milk and so the crumb is amazingly soft. As for the glaze, you can use egg or milk or a combination of water and sugar. These give the brownish colour to the crust. These breads are made for the Holy Cross Day during September and the bread is carried home after the mass.

It has been a while since I made a proper yeast bread and so I didn’t want to miss this month. Sruti was so happy when I made this bread. She loves the breads I bake more than the cakes and she misses them so much. Though I have been making flat breads, nothing can beat the fluffy loaves of breads. I gave her two slices to have for two days and the rest went with hubby to his office. The ring shaped bread was so cute and the inner crumb studded with raisins was an absolutely beautiful sight. Though I don’t eat them, I appreciate the look of a beautiful bread and I was happy I tried it.

Recipe Source : Ciao Italia

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour / Maida – 3 cups

Instant Yeast – 1 1/4 tsp

Sugar – 1/4 cup

Salt – 1 1/2 tsp

Fennel Powder – 1/2 tsp

Milk – 1 cup

Butter – 2 tbs

Golden Raisins – 3/4 cup

Procedure:

In a bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt, fennel powder and yeast.

Add milk and butter and mix to make a soft dough.

Add raisins and knead the dough for 5 – 10 minutes until elastic and smooth.

Cover and set aside until double in volume.

Punch it down and roll it into a log.

Grease a baking tray and place the rolled log on it and bring the sides together to form a ring. Pinch them together.

Place a bowl in the centre. Cover and set aside for 15 minutes.

While the bread is in the final proving, preheat oven to 200°C.

Using a sharp knife, score the bread on top as shown.

Bake for 40 – 45 minutes until the top is golden.

Remove from oven, cool the bread on wire rack before slicing.

Buccellato Di Lucca Recipe

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Course Breads

Cuisine International, Italian

Servings 1 Loaf

Ingredients

  

• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 3 cups
• Instant Yeast - 1 1/4 tsp
• Sugar - 1/4 cup
• Salt - 1 1/2 tsp
• Fennel Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Milk -1 cup
• Butter-2 tbs
• Golden Raisins - 3/4 cup

Instructions

 

• In a bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt, fennel powder and yeast.
• Add milk and butter and mix to make a soft dough.
• Add raisins and knead the dough for 5 - 10 minutes until elastic and smooth.
• Cover and set aside until double in volume.
• Punch it down and roll it into a log.
• Grease a baking tray and place the rolled log on it and bring the sides together to form a ring. Pinch them together.
• Place a bowl in the centre. Cover and set aside for 15 minutes.
• While the bread is in the final proving, preheat oven to 200°C.
• Using a sharp knife, score the bread on top as shown.
• Bake for 40 - 45 minutes until the top is golden.
• Remove from oven, cool the bread on wire rack before slicing.

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#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.