The Queen of Yeast and her Consort will be out of town on Saturday, January 27th visiting friends in Camano Island. Therefore, there will be no bread made that day. We'll catch up at the end.
Dissolve 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons dry yeast, 3 tablespoon vegetable oil, and 1 teaspoon salt in 3 1/2 cups warm water. Stir to mix. Let stand 5 minutes. Add 8-9 cups unbleached all purpose flour; knead, adding flour as necessary to make soft dough. Grease entire surface of dough with vegetable oil, place in a large bowl, and cover with a dish towel. Let rise in warm place until dough is double in size.
Punch the dough down and divide into 4 pieces. Flour surface and roll out (with rolling pin) each piece to approximately 9"x13." Take 1 tablespoon water and gently rub each surface. Sprinkle surfaces generously with a cinnamon and sugar mixture. Sprinkle each surface with 1/2 cup moist raisins. Roll dough to form a loaf. Place each loaf in a greased bread pan and pinch down ends to seal filling (seam down). Butter the top of the loaves with butter. Let rise until double in size.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake in the middle of the oven for 25-30 minutes. Remove from pans, cool on rack, and butter the tops again while hot.
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