Swedish Saffron Buns Recipe

How to make it

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• Melt the butter and add the milk to lukewarm (37 degrees C).
• Crumble the yeast into a bowl, add the salt and then pour the butter and milk mix over it and let the yeast melt while stirring (if you are using dry yeast, blend it with the flour instead).
• Add saffron, sugar, egg and about half the flour (make sure you have no lumps in the flour before adding it to the liquid dough). Work the dough until smooth and easy and then add the rest of the flour.
• Maybe you need to add more or less flour than in this recipe, you have to add enough flour so the dough nearly lets go of the bowl. It's not supposed to be too sticky, but still if you add too much flour the buns will be dry. It's better to have a bit too little flour at this point and add more if needed when you form the buns. Spread some flour on top of the dough and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Let it rise to double its size. It takes about 1 hour.
• Put the dough onto the floured pastry board and work the dough a few minutes. Take a small piece of dough and roll it to a S-shaped bun or the shape you prefer.
• Preheat the oven to 225 degrees Celsius.
• Put the buns on a non-stick oven paper on an oven tray and let it rise again for about 20-30 minutes.
• Brush with whisked egg and then garnish at top and bottom of each S with raisins. If you add the raisins first and then brush the buns with whisked egg, the raisins will fall out, during the fermentation.
• Bake in oven for about 5-10 minutes depending on size, until golden.
• Let them cool down a little bit before settling down to enjoy your treat!