Last night I had a burst of energy and only a few slices of bread left. So, I decided to make some bread for today. It started off being 1 loaf white bread (for sandwiches) and 1 loaf raisin bread (for breakfast). But, as I was looking for the raisins in the pantry, I found a package of dried pineapple, mango, and papaya I had forgotten about. Why not?! So, I chopped up the dried fruit to about the size of raisins and kneaded them into the bread at the end of my kneading process.
My husband sat in the living room watching the ball game and asking when the bread would be ready.
I let it rise, punched it down, shaped it into loaves (one plain white and the other tropical fruit).
My husband asked if it was done yet.
With a smile I let the loaves rise and they looked so beautiful as I put them in the oven. Oh my! The whole house smelled like baking bread. Yum! With about 20 minutes to go, I told him how long it would take and asked if he could let me know since I couldn’t hear the microwave timer go off from our home office.
At twenty minutes (to the second), my husband called out, “Twenty minutes is up!”
When I’m baking bread, he’s better than a timer. Two beautiful, fragrant loaves of bread came out of the oven… and had to sit and cool for a bit.
And finally, my husband got to have a late evening snack.
He chose the tropical fruit bread. I did, too. With him and my boys, loaves like this don’t last long. It was delicious. We love raisin bread, but now we have a bread we love even more. I highly recommend pineapple, mango, papaya bread.
