Instructions: In large bowl combine cracked wheat, brown sugar, salt, butter and boiling water. Mix well and allow to cool.

Place all ingredients into bread pan in the order recommended by your machines manufacturer treating the cracked wheat mixture as liquid. Add cold water to cracked wheat and make sure it is not overly hot. If too hot it will kill the yeast. Process on the Raisin Bread cycle, adding raisins near the end of the last knead.

This recipe yields a 1 1/2 pound loaf.

Comments: You can use either all all-purpose flour or all bread flour but this bread has better texture using half and half.

Yield: 1 loaf

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