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Raisin bread or fruit bread (also known as fruit toast or raisin toast in New Zealand and Australia) [2] is a type of bread made with raisins and flavored with cinnamon. It is "usually a white flour or egg dough bread". [3] Aside from white flour, raisin bread is also made with other flours, such as all-purpose flour, oat flour, or whole wheat ...
Kletzenbrot is a sweet bread with dried fruits, especially dried pears (called Kletzen in Austrian German) [citation needed] made for the Advent season in some Christian countries, notably associated with the Austrian state of Tyrol, and sometimes called Tyrolean Dried Fruit Bread. [1]
Vehling's translation of Apicius glosses it as "a piece of pastry, a round bread or roll in this case, stale, best suited for this purpose". [5] Perry compares it to a "ship's biscuit". [6] It is also mentioned in Cato the Elder's recipe for placenta cake, layered with cheese. [7]
Früchtebrot (also called Berewecke, Birnenbrot, Hutzenbrot, Hutzelbrot, Kletzenbrot, Schnitzbrot or Zelten) is a sweet, dark bread baked with dried fruit. Früchtebrot is commonly baked into small oblong loaves. The bread has a juicy, firm texture with visible bits of fruit and nuts. It often contains almonds and maraschino cherries ...
Birnbrot (literally pear bread) or Birnweggen (literally pear buns) are a traditional pastry originating in Switzerland with a filling of dried pears. They exist throughout Switzerland and popular variations include "Bündener Birnbrot" (from the Kanton Graubünden), [1] "Glarner Birnbrot" (from the Kanton Glarus), [2] "Toggenburger Birnbrot" (from Toggenburg) [3] and "Luzerner Birnweggen ...
The bread is made by mixing flour (either white or self-raising), yeast (if not using self-raising flour), butter, mixed dried fruit (such as raisins, currants and sultanas), mixed spices and an egg. [6] Some recipes favour soaking the dried fruit in tea overnight before the baking. [7] This mixture is then proved to allow fermentation to take ...
Fig-cakes have historically been used as food in ancient times. The Hebrew Bible mentions the food dveláh (Hebrew: דבילה) in several places: . Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves [of bread], and two bottles of wine... and an hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs (דבלים ), etc. (1 Samuel 25:18) [6]
Also called Christmas fruit bread, the tsoureki dough may include a combination of raisins, dried apricots, dried figs, orange zest, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, cardamom, Mastic (plant resin) and mahleb. [22] [23] [24] (Some recipes suggest marinating the raisins and dried figs overnight in wines like retsina or mavrodaphne). [25]