Swedish Christmas Bread Voertbroed
From umeboshi 15 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 68
This is a traditional christmas bread from Sweden. No christmas feast is complete without it! You dip it (fast!) in the broth from the ham and serve it with a slice of ham and mustard.
Ingredients
- 50 g /1.8 oz fresh yeast shopping list
- 3 dl / 1.3 cups porter shopping list
- 2.5 dl /1 cup christmas beer (dark beer) shopping list
- 50 g /1.8 oz butter shopping list
- 0.5 dl / 0.2 cup rapeseed oil shopping list
- 1 dl / 0.4 cup molasses shopping list
- 0.5 msk / 0.5 tbsp ground bitter orange shopping list
- 1.5 msk / 1.5 tbsp ground ginger shopping list
- 1 msk / 1 tbsp ground cloves shopping list
- 0.5 msk /0.5 tbsp ground cardamon shopping list
- 1 msk / 1 tbsp salt shopping list
- 13.5 dl / 5.7 cups rye- and wheatflour shopping list
- 3 dl / 1.3 cups raisins shopping list
How to make it
- Dissolve the yeast in a big bowl with porter, beer, oil and molasses
- Melt the butter with the spices and salt. Let it cool a little (it shouldn't feel hot when you put your finger in it) before adding to the yeast mixture
- Mix in the raisins and flour a little at the time and work the dough slowly (by hand or y machine) until it's soft and elastic
- Let the dough rise in the bowl to twice its size under a cloth
- Turn on the oven to 200 C / 400 F / Gas mark 6
- Make 2 loaves of bread, put them in an oven pan and let rise under a cloth for 1 hour
- Bake for about 50 minutes, but lower the temperature to 150 C / 300 F / Gas mark 2 after 15 minutes
- Let the loaves cool on a wire tray under a clean cloth
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Mmmm, delish~
I bet the whole house smell wonderfully when you make it!
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great bread thanks high5
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