All saints bread

 It's that (spooky) time of the year. And on this day, in Siena, my hometown, we usually eat this traditional dessert, " All saints bread", walnuts and sultanas being "the saints". While waiting for trick or treating, or for children to knock on you door, you can take your bowl, mix some flour, raisins and nuts, and then go out until, once the dough has proven, you can bake the whole mix, watch it while it rises in the oven. Not sweet nor savoury..salt and pepper make the trick!

Ingredients

200 g flour

100g sugar

100ml Tuscan extra virgin olive oil

8g dry yeast / 15g fresh yeast

 Vin santo ( dessert wine)

200ml  water

100g raisins

50 g walnuts

10g salt

ground pepper

Rehydrate raisins in wine (or hot water) and, then, drain them. Stir fry roughly chopped walnuts. Meanwhile, mix the yeast with water, till it becomes frothy. Let it sit for one hour. 

In a bowl stir together  the yeast with flour, sugar, salt, pepper, walnuts, raisins, and oil. Knead to form a smooth dough. Put it on a baking tray, make a cross on top of it and bake for 30-40min at 200°.