Breakfast Bread - Like Publix for Bread Machine

Ingredients:

Wet Ingredients:
2 1/4 tsp or 1 packet Bread Machine or instant yeast
1 cup warm water
2 Tbsp plum pastry filling
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
2 Tbsp sugar
1-1⁄2 teaspoons honey
1 teaspoon salt
3⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 egg, beaten

Dry Ingredients:
3 to 3 1⁄4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons wheat gluten

Dried Fruit & Nuts:
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
3 Tbsp dried cranberries
3 Tbsp chopped dried apricots
3 Tbsp chopped dried apple

Instructions:

Wet Ingredients: In a mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in 1⁄4 cup warm water, mix well. Add 3/4 cup more warm water, plum filling, oil, sugar, honey, salt, cinnamon, and egg. Mix well. Pour into bottom of bread machine.

Dry Ingredients: Add the flour and wheat gluten on top of the wet ingredients in the bread machine.

Set the bread machine to REGULAR WHITE BREAD CYCLE, 1-1/2 POUND LOAF, MEDIUM CRUST.

Monitor dough as it mixes for the first few minutes and add more flour or water as needed, a tablespoon at a time, to form a smooth ball of dough. It should be firm enough to hold its own shape and not sticky. It should not be so dry that it is crumbly.

Dried Fruit & Nuts: Mix the fruit and nuts together in a bowl. Add to bread machine when it beeps to add dried fruit near the end of the kneading cycle. This usually happens 5 to 10 minutes before the end of the dough kneading cycle.

After bread is baked, remove from bread machine and baking basket and allow to cool before slicing.

Makes one 1-1/2 pound loaf of Breakfast Bread - Like Publix.