You’ll be toast if you don’t take advantage of today’s food holiday. September 16 is National Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day!
OK, you don’t have to toast cinnamon-raisin bread in order to enjoy it. But it sure helps! Especially with a pat of butter on top; the toast makes the butter melt, where it seeps into every little crevice, filling them with its rich goodness.
YES! YES! YES!
Oops, sorry. Cinnamon raisin bread is classified as a sweet bread; different versions have existed since the 15th century, but oddly enough, raisin bread was invented by Henry David Thoreau, the famed author, poet, and philosopher best known for Walden. According to historical accounts, while baking bread at his home on Walden Pond one day, Thoreau tossed a handful of raisins into the dough. Hardly a culinary stretch, but the housewives of Concord, Massachusetts were used to baking in a very particular manner, and this breach of protocol was quite scandalous at the time. Stunned though they were, one taste was enough to convince them that ol’ Henry was onto something good.
Our brief honeymoon ended today, and it was back to reality for us. We picked up a loaf of cinnamon raisin bread, and toasted it (with butter, of course) for dessert this evening. Yum!
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It was good! Would’ve been better for breakfast, though.
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Reblogged this on muscleheaded and commented:
YUM
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I would have loved it had it not been the raisins.
But you knew that already.
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I think it needed more raisins myself…
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Oh you tempter! Bread is my nemesis and raisin bread is at the top of the list. I’m drooling over the picture. I’ll take mine with light butter and a dusting of cinnamon sugar please!
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Mmm…I didn’t even think of using cinnamon sugar!
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I had to buy cinnamon-raisin bagels today just because of this!
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Mmm. Sounds amazing. Hope you enjoyed them!
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