Recipe

Swedish Christmas Bread Voertbroed Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Umeboshi / All my dishes 12 months ago 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. Prep:120m Cook:60m Servings:68	Umeboshi
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Ingredients

50 g /1.8 oz fresh yeast

3 dl / 1.3 cups porter

2.5 dl /1 cup christmas beer (dark beer)

50 g /1.8 oz butter

0.5 dl / 0.2 cup rapeseed oil

1 dl / 0.4 cup molasses

0.5 msk / 0.5 tbsp ground bitter orange

1.5 msk / 1.5 tbsp ground ginger

1 msk / 1 tbsp ground cloves

0.5 msk /0.5 tbsp ground cardamon

1 msk / 1 tbsp salt

13.5 dl / 5.7 cups rye- and wheatflour

3 dl / 1.3 cups raisins

Directions

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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