Australian Gourmet Traveller breakfast recipe for raisin pain au lait with honey quince and crème fraîche.
Jun 10, 2010 12:15amBy
- 45 mins preparation
- 3 hrs 30 mins cooking plus proving, cooling
- Serves 6
You can make the raisin pain au lait and honey quince several days in advance. You can also use a shop-bought fruit loaf if you don't want to make your own - just make sure it's got a bit of body to it.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 100 ml milk
- 50 gm butter, coarsely chopped
- To serve: crème fraîche
Honey quince
- 320 gm honey
- 220 gm caster sugar (1 cup)
- Thinly peeled rind and juice of 1 lemon and 1 orange
- 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped
- 4 quince, cored, quartered (peel and trimmings reserved)
Raisin pain au lait
- 280 gm plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 2 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp dried yeast
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp finely grated nutmeg
- Finely grated rind of 1 orange
- 120 ml lukewarm milk
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 60 gm softened butter, plus extra for greasing
- 70 gm raisins
- 20 gm candied orange peel, finely chopped
Method
Main
1
For honey quince, preheat oven to 120C. Combine all ingredients (except quince, peel and trimmings) and 750ml water in a large saucepan, stir over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat, add quince, peel and trimmings, cover closely with baking paper, weight with a plate, cover with foil and cook until quince is tender and pale pink (2½-3 hours). Remove quince with a slotted spoon, set aside, then strain liquid into a clean saucepan and simmer over medium-high heat until reduced by half (25-30 minutes). Pour syrup over quince and set aside.
2
For raisin pain au lait, process flour, honey, yeast, spices and orange rind in a food processor to combine. Add milk and eggs, pulse to combine, then add butter and process until a soft dough forms. Transfer to a buttered bowl, cover and stand in a warm place until doubled in size (1-1½ hours). Turn onto a lightly floured surface, knock back, then knead in raisins and candied orange peel, shape into a cylinder and place in a buttered 7cm x 29cm loaf tin (see note). Cover with plastic wrap, stand until dough rises to just below rim (45 minutes-1 hour). Meanwhile, preheat oven to 180C. Bake bread in oven, weighted with an oven tray topped with a cast-iron pan (see note), until golden and cooked through (30-40 minutes). Turn onto a wire rack to cool completely, then wrap in plastic wrap and store at room temperature. Raisin pain au lait will keep, stored in an airtight container, for 5 days.
3
Reduce oven to 150C. Whisk eggs and milk to combine, then transfer to a shallow tray. Cut raisin pain au lait into six 3cm-thick slices, stand in egg mixture, turning once, until soaked (2 minutes each side), then drain.
4
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Notes
Note If you don't have a loaf tin of this size, roll dough into a cylinder about 25cm long, place on an oven tray lined with baking paper, brush with eggwash, stand until risen, then bake until dark golden (20-25 minutes). Weighting the loaf with an oven tray, topped with a cast-iron pan, helps it to keep a perfectly square shape while baking, but it's not absolutely necessary to do this.
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