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    Raisin bread is a type of bread made with raisins and often flavored with cinnamon. It is usually made with white flour but can also contain other flours like whole wheat or oats. Variations include adding nuts like walnuts, hazelnuts, or pecans. Raisin bread is commonly eaten toasted for breakfast or made into sandwiches, and some restaurants serve it with cheese.

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    Raisin bread is a type of bread made with raisins and often flavored with cinnamon. It is usually made with white flour but can also contain other flours like whole wheat or oats. Variations include adding nuts like walnuts, hazelnuts, or pecans. Raisin bread is commonly eaten toasted for breakfast or made into sandwiches, and some restaurants serve it with cheese.

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    Raisin bread is a type of bread made with raisins and often flavored with cinnamon. It is usually made with white flour but can also contain other flours like whole wheat or oats. Variations include adding nuts like walnuts, hazelnuts, or pecans. Raisin bread is commonly eaten toasted for breakfast or made into sandwiches, and some restaurants serve it with cheese.

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    Raisin bread is a type of bread made with raisins and flavored with cinnamon.

    It is "usually a white flour or egg dough


    bread".
    [2]
    Aside from white flour, raisin bread is also made with other flours, such as oat flour or whole wheat flour. Some recipes
    include honey, brown sugar, eggs, or butter.
    [3]
    Variations of the recipe include the addition ofwalnuts,
    [4]
    hazelnuts,
    [5]
    pecans
    [6]
    or,
    for a dessert, rum or whisky.
    [7][8]

    Raisin bread is eaten in many different forms, including being served toasted for breakfast ("raisin toast") or made into
    sandwiches.
    [9]
    Some restaurants serve raisin bread with their cheeseboards.
    [10]

    Contents
    [hide]
    1 History
    2 Varieties
    3 Production
    4 In cosmology
    5 See also
    6 Notes
    7 References
    8 Further reading
    9 External links
    History[edit]
    Its invention has been attributed to Henry David Thoreau
    [11][nb 1]
    in Concord, Massachusetts lore, but there have been published
    recipes for bread with raisins since 1671.
    [12]
    Since the 1400s, breads made with raisins were made in Europe. In
    Germany stollenwas a Christmas bread. Kulich was an Easter bread made in Russia and panettone was made in Italy.
    [13]
    The
    earliest citation for "raisin bread" in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated to an 1845 article in Blackwood's Edinburgh
    Magazine.
    [14]
    In England, raisin bread became a common element of high tea from the second half of the nineteenth century.
    [15]
    In
    the 1920s, raisin bread was advertised as "The Bread Of Iron", due to the high iron content of the raisins.
    [16]
    The bread became
    increasingly popular among English bakers in the 1960s.
    [17]

    Varieties[edit]


    A loaf of raisin challa
    European versions of raisin bread include the Estonian "kringel"
    [18]
    and the Slovakian "vianocka".
    [19]
    A similar food is raisin challah,
    a traditional Jewish food for Shabbat andholidays.
    [20]
    It has been suggested that Garibaldi biscuits were based on a raisin bread
    that was eaten by the troops of Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi.
    [21]

    Production[edit]
    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.
    [22]
    Raisin bread is one of five
    types of bread for which federal standards have been outlined.
    [23]

    In cosmology[edit]
    The ways in which individual raisins move during rising and baking of the bread is often used as an analogy to explain
    the expansion of the universe.
    [24][25]

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