Almost my creation!

That is a bit ambitious! I made a walnut and fig loaf today using the Panasonic recipe book recipe for Walnut and Honey Loaf and a recipe for fig and nut toast (that wasn't a bread machine recipe) last week. It is not quite the same as either but turned out really well - not that we have cut it yet but I am going on appearances. So here is my version

Fig and Walnut Loaf

1 1/2 teaspoons dry yeast
250 g wholemeal flour
250 g bread flour
1/2 teaspoon bread improver
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 tablespoons dry skim milk powder
20 g butter
1 tablespoon honey
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup chopped figs
360 ml water

This was made on the Whole Wheat Raisin Beep setting. The only problem was that I was late in getting to the kitchen for the beep and the mixing had finished well and truly by the time I got there so I had to take it out of the machine and knead in the figs and nuts by hand before returning it all to the machine. However it didn't seem to suffer and the dough was nice and pliable so it wasn't a hardship to knead for a few minutes.

I am quite distressed to hear that Panasonic discontinued making bread machines a few years ago - I had intended to replace this one (when the time came) with the machine that added the nuts etc automatically at the right time. I gather that bread machines aren't in favour at the moment. Can't imagine why as it takes less time to make a loaf than to go out to buy one!