I don't like raisins but made this for my husband who does. It took about 6 hours from start to finish. I looked at the other comments and added more sugar and did the milk with butter. Also used more brown sugar/cinnamon. Well, my husband said it was the best he'd ever had - much better than what we buy at the store. My son-in-law dropped buy and had a piece. I ended up having to give him a loaf to take home. He said he was in heaven! Tomorrow I'm going to make it as a white bread and see how it is (myself).