Raisin bread
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Raisin bread or fruit bread (also known as fruit toast or raisin toast in New Zealand and Australia)
Raisin bread is eaten in many different forms, including being served toasted for breakfast ("raisin toast") or made into sandwiches.[10] Some restaurants serve raisin bread with their cheeseboards.[11]
History
Its invention has been popularly incorrectly attributed to
Varieties
European versions of raisin bread include the Estonian "kringel"
In Australia and New Zealand, buttered raisin toast is common for breakfast.[2]
Production
The United States Code of Federal Regulations specifies standards that raisin bread produced in the country must meet. This includes a requirement for the weight of the raisins to be equal to 50% of the weight of flour used.[24] Raisin bread is one of five types of bread for which federal standards have been outlined.[25]
In cosmology
The ways in which individual raisins move during rising and baking of the bread is often used as an analogy to explain the
See also
Notes
- ^ Walter Harding wrote in his biography of Henry Thoreau that the man had created raisin bread. Author Ken Jennings writes: "It seems the eminent Professor Harding was taken in by, of all things, a story in a 1943 Ladies' Home Journal article, which got its delicious, raisiny facts from a longstanding legend in Thoreau's hometown of Concord, Massachusetts... Ultimately Harding recanted his claims in a 1990 Thoreau Society Bulletin titled 'Thoreau and Raisin Bread.'"[14]
References
- ISBN 978-1-4620-5472-5.
- ^ a b "Fruit bread – Eat Well Recipe". NZ Herald. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-87596-225-2.
- ISBN 978-0-87596-225-2.
- ^ "Delia skims the goalpost". The Independent on Sunday. June 25, 2000.
- ^ Miers, Thomasina (December 15, 2007). "Party season's big dippers". The Times.
- ^ Richardson, Belinda (June 25, 2005). "'We could be in the lounge bar of an ocean-going liner'". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "10 top spots near the shops". The Times. December 15, 2007.
- ^ Ferrier, Clare (September 13, 2008). "The Royal Oak, Brookland". The Daily Telegraph.
- ISBN 978-1-55832-156-4.
- ^ Mclean, Neil (June 27, 2004). "If this is a diet, count me in". The Sunday Times.
- National Public Radio. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ^ Dolis, J. (2005) Tracking Thoreau: double-crossing nature and technology
p.32. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 0-8386-4045-1Retrieved January 2012
- ^ ISBN 978-1-58836-552-1.
- ^ "History of Raisins and Dried Fruit". Sun Maid. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ "raisin, n." Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ Wilson, Bee (March 9, 2002). "There's nothing 'high' about high tea". The Times.
- ^ "The Bread of Iron (advertisement)" (PDF). The Sunday Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. September 18, 1921. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ Woodland, John (October 20, 1967). "Price blow to raisin traders in UK". The Times.
- ^ Brûlé, Tyler (December 27, 2008). "Things to do, places to go". The Financial Times.
- ^ Gill, Jaime (November 22, 2008). "A winter affair". The Guardian.
- ISBN 978-0-06-204121-0.
- ^ Vallely, Paul (June 30, 2007). "Garibaldi: The First Global Action Hero". The Independent.
- ^ "Section 136.160 – Raisin bread, rolls, and buns". Code of Federal Regulations. April 1, 2005. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ISSN 1528-9729.
- ^ "What does it mean when they say the universe is expanding?". Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. August 23, 2010. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ NASA/WMAP Science Team (March 25, 2013). "Tests of Big Bang: Expansion". WMAP's Universe. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
Further reading
- Fritz Ludwig Gienandt (1919). "Raisin Bread". The Twentieth Century Book for the Progressive Baker, Hotel Confectioner, Ornamenter and Ice Cream Maker: The Most Up-to-date and Practical Book of Its Kind. Four Seas. p. 192.
- G. H. Lewis (1915). "The Invasion of Great Britain by Associated Raisin Co.". Sun-Maid Herald Vol 1 No 1. p. 20.
- C. A. Paulden (1915). "Raisin Bread Provides New Outlet for Raisins". Sun-Maid Herald Vol 1 No 1. Fresno, California: California Associated Raisin Co. pp. 7–8.
- "Raisins (production increase with Raisin Bread production)". Western Canner and Packer. Miller Freeman Publications of California. 1916. p. 2.
- "Raisin Bread Standard (U.S. Government)". Baking Technology. American Bakers' Association. 1922. p. 121.
- Walter V. Woehlke (1918). "The Rise of the Raisin". Country Gentleman. Curtis Publishing Company. p. 6.
External links
- Media related to Raisin bread at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionary definition of raisin bread at Wiktionary