41 Points for entire loaf (Weight Watchers)

• 4 cups Sifted flour
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons Caraway seeds
• ¼ cup butter or margarine
• 2 cups light or dark raisins
• 1 1/3 cups buttermilk
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 egg yolk or cream or milk

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees
2. Grease iron frying pan (or 2 quart casserole dish)
3. Sift together: flour, sugar, salt, baking powder
4. Stir in Caraway seeds
5. "Cut" in butter until it is like coarse corn meal
6. Stir in raisins
7. Combine: buttermilk, egg, baking soda and stir into the dry mix until just moistened.
8. Shape into a ball and place into iron frying pan or casserole
9. Cut a 4-inch cross into the top with a sharp knife
10. Brush with beaten egg yolk, or cream, or milk.
11. Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes in casserole, or 40 minutes in iron frying pan.
12. Cool in pan for 10 minutes.
13. Remove and cool on a rack before slicing.

Tastes great with butter or margarine spread on it (WMS).