Recipe: Dempster's Bakery Malt Bread (copycat recipe)

DEMPSTER'S MALT BREAD
(copycat recipe)

"I've been experimenting for a couple of years, trying to duplicate a local Canadian product called Dempster's Malt Loaf. I am not there yet, but here is the latest incarnation.

I assume that everyone has made bread by hand and knows the basics, and I further assume (??) that everyone can handle some metric weights. If not, let me know and I can provide a translation. And no, I don't know offhand what a cup of raisins weighs. And I don't really care." - Source: alt.bread.recipes / by Ribitt, 7/23/01

3 cups water, divided use
2 tbsp dried yeast
1/3 cup molasses (molasses and malt extract are not the same thing)
2/3 cup malt extract (from the local brew shop)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 cup dark raisins
1 egg, beaten
2 tsp salt
600 grams whole wheat flour
white flour (enough to make a bread dough. Probably the total flour is 7 cups or so.)

Start the yeast in 1 cup of the water.

Blend (puree) the raisins with 1 cup of the water.

Mix everything as for any other bread, knead, oiled bowls, all that stuff.

First rise is about 1 1/2 hours, second rise about 1 hour.

My last batch yielded 2470 grams of finished dough. 2 x 800 gm loaves, and 2 x 435 gram loaves which I baked in coffee cans. (The local Dempster bread is round)

Bake at 375 degrees F (190 C) for 35 minutes. I only measured the internal temp of the larger loaves. Strange, the two smaller loaves in the coffee cans could have used another 5 minutes.

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DEMPSTER'S MALT BREAD
Ingredients from Dempster employee

"I actually used to work in the Dempsters bakery that produced the malt bread and can give you an idea of what was in it. I know it contained white flour, malted barley flour, veg oil, raisin puree, caramel color, and I cant remember if it was sweetened with sugar or molasses. Other than that just some dough conditioners and preservatives and dumped into 6 strap pans with lids that were a pain to work with." - Source: Thefreshloaf.com/ Kar, 6/13/11

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DEMPSTER'S MALT BREAD
INGREDIENTS LIST

340 GRAMS, UNSLICED

Ingredients:
ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, YEAST*, FANCY MOLASSES, VEGETABLE OIL (CANOLA OR SOYBEAN), SOLUBLE RAISIN SYRUP (RAISIN SOLIDS, WATER), SALT, CARAMEL COLOUR (CONTAINS SULFITES), WHEAT GLUTEN, CALCIUM PROPIONATE. *ORDER MAY CHANGE.

MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF MILK INGREDIENTS, EGG AND SESAME SEEDS.

Allergens:

Present in Plant:
Wheat flour, sulfites, milk ingredients, eggs, sesame seeds, soybean

Present on Manufacturing Line:
Wheat flour, sulfites, milk ingredients, eggs, sesame seeds

Present in Product:
Wheat flour, sulfites