Best Apple Butter Rye Bread Recipes

APPLE BUTTER BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 8x4x2-inch loaf pan.
• Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cloves in a bowl.
• Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a separate large bowl until smooth. Add the egg and apple butter; continue beating until smooth. Mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the raisins and walnuts; mixing just enough to evenly combine. Pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

HEARTY APPLE-RYE BREAD (BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Add ingredients to bread machine in order suggested by manufacturer, adding the apple with the flours.
• If dough is too dry or stiff or to soft add more liquid or flour in 1 teaspoon increments, adding no more than 3 to 4 teaspoons liquid or flour.
• Recommended cycle; Whole wheat/whole grain or basic/white cycle, light or medium/normal color setting.

APPLE BUTTER BREAD

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine the apple butter, cinnamon and cloves.
• Whisk in the water, then oil, then brown sugar, then the eggs (not all together). Mix until smooth.
• Sift together (important so you don't get white lumps in your dark bread), flour, baking soda and salt. Then combine with the apple butter mixture and mix until smooth.
• Pour into a greased 9-inch loaf pan or 3 to 4 mini-loaf pans.
• Bake at 350F for 65-70 minutes for the 9-inch pan or 45-50 minutes for the mini-loaves.
• Let stand for 10-15 minutes to cool slightly before removing from the pans and letting cool completely on a wire rack.

APPLE BUTTER RYE BREAD

Steps:

• Put first six ingredients into bread machine pan.
• Toast chopped walnuts in a hot dry iron skillet ~ set aside in a large bowl to cool.
• Measure flours and add to bowl with toasted walnuts.
• Shell cardamom pods and grind the seeds with brown sugar ~ add to bowl of dry ingredients.
• Add dry milk powder and vital wheat gluten to other dry ingredients.
• Spoon dry ingredients into bread machine pan, on top of wet ingredients.
• In one corner of bread machine pan, add salt ~ in an opposite corner, add the bread machine yeast.
• Select DOUGH CYCLE ~ after about 10 minutes of mixing, check dough consistency ~ if too dry, add water one tablespoon at a time ~ if too wet, add flour one tablespoon at a time, until dough is smooth and not ragged.
• Divide dough and shape into two one-pound loaves ~ LET DOUGH RISE UNTIL DOUBLED. ALLOW ENOUGH TIME FOR PROPER RISE ~ If dough doesn't rise enough, the bread will be dense!
• For two one-pound loaves, bake in a preheated 350F oven, in glass pans, for 20 minutes ~ tent with foil and continue baking another 10-15 minutes.
• For one two-pound loaf, bake in a preheated 350F oven, in glass pans, for 20 minutes ~ tent with foil and continue baking another 20-25 minutes.
• NOTE: I have not baked this recipe in a complete bread machine baking cycle.