Everyone knows about raisin buns. It is a lush and soft pastry inside with sweet raisins, which perfectly combines with the dough. It
seems that buns with raisins have existed since ancient times
.
However, it turns out that such baked goods appeared only in the XIX century. The baker was initially misunderstood with his idea of buns with raisins
. The baker was summoned by the governor-general with a claim that there was a cockroach in his bun. The baker ate the cockroach and said that it was raisins
. After this situation, no one was picky about raisin buns. Although some people thought this pastry was strange.
Everything changed in Soviet times. Then buns with raisins were at the peak of popularity. Let’s prepare homemade buns with raisins.
Ingredients for buns with raisins:
- Milk – 400 ml;
- Dry yeast – 8 g;
- Sugar – 150 g;
- Vanilla sugar – 3 g;
- Flour – 700 g;
- Eggs – 2 pcs;
- Salt – a pinch;
- Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp;
- Butter – 80 g;
- Raisins – 260 g.
Preparation of buns with raisins:
Pour yeast, sugar and vanilla sugar into warm milk, stir. Leave the opara under the lid for 15 minutes.
Next, break eggs into the opara, salt, beat in the yeast. Sift the flour into the mixture in batches, knead the dough. Add soft butter to the dough, knead with your hands on the table for 7-8 minutes, on a table sprinkled with flour
After kneading, pour vegetable oil into the dough, gather it into a ball. Leave the dough for 1.5 hours in the heat under a lid, kneading every 30 minutes.
Soak the raisins and then dry them. When the dough is kneaded for the last time, pour the raisins into it and leave it under the lid again.
Knead the dough again and divide it into rolls of 100 grams each. Place the buns on a parchment-lined baking tray and let them proof for 40 minutes.
Grease the buns with a mixture of milk and egg.
Bake at 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
Raisins in the buns before baking is better to remove down, so that it does not burn. You get more flavorful puffy buns with raisins.
