Rosemary and Apricot French Loaf

This is a sweet bread that seems quite fancy and is actually not much more work than a simple French loaf. I went to an Irish bakery once and they had apricot bread. In my imagination, this is the recipe I was thinking of so I made this up when the Irish bakery didn't read my mind.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 3 hr
• Total Time: 3 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 184 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
• 2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
• 1 ⅜ cups water
• 4 cups bread flour
• ½ cup dried apricots, quartered

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Place water, olive oil, and salt into one side of a bread machine. Place 1/3 of the apricots on top of this fluid mixture with 2 cups of flour. Place more apricots in the middle of the flour, pour remaining flour on top, followed by remaining apricots. This will help weaker bread machines integrate the apricots.

Step 2

Run French loaf cycle for a 2-pound loaf. Remove from the machine after the cycle is done, about 3 1/2 hours.