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B. Voycheshin's Easter Bread With Saffron and Raisins Recipe

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B. Voycheshin's Easter Bread With Saffron and Raisins
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Ingredients
19
Count
Nutrition
1230
Calories
Total time
225
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup water, warm
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 2 1/2 tbsp yeast
  • 1 1/3 cups flour , sifted
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp saffron thread (to taste)
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 5 -5 1/2 cups flour , sifted

Directions:

  1. Scald the milk and leave to cool.
  2. Set raisins in water to reconstitute.
  3. Combine warm water, sugar and yeast. Let stand until frothy, approximately 10 minutes.
  4. Beat the cooled milk and first amount of flour well with beaters in a very large bowl with a tight fitting cover.
  5. Add the yeast mixture to the milk and flour, beat well then cover and let stand for at least 30 minutes or up to 2 hours.
  6. In a small bowl mix together the warm melted butter, oil, vanilla, lemon zest, lemon juice and saffron. Allow this mixture to steep and strengthen its flavor.
  7. Meanwhile, separate the eggs and put the yolks in a medium bowl with the two whole eggs (reserve the whites for another use, but you do need one later). I TRY TO BUY FREE RANGE EGGS FOR THIS USE SO THAT I AM SURE TO HAVE THE YELLOWEST YOLKS. Beat the eggs and yolks until they are frothy but not stiff. Add the sugar and salt and continue beating until both are dissolved.
  8. Add the butter/oil/saffron mix to the eggs and beat well.
  9. Now, combine the egg/butter mixture into the yeast and flour that was set aside earlier and beat this well.
  10. Take this moment to drain and pat dry the raisins that have been soaking, and toss them in the second amount of flour so that they do not sink (THIS MAY BE AN OLD WIVES TALE, BUT I DO IT ANYWAYS BECAUSE MY MOM TOLD ME TO, AND AT THIS POINT I THINK YOU SHOULD TOO).
  11. Begin adding the flour to the egg/butter/yeast mixture one cup at a time and beat well between each cup. Beat until you can beat no more.
  12. I don't have a Kitchen Aid so at about 3 cups I have to stop beating with beaters and resort to stirring by hand. I find that a flat hand held spatula helps, but you've got to do it to get all the flour in and distributed evenly.
  13. When all the flour is blended evenly you add the raisins to the batter, you want to distribute them throughout, but don't want to break them either, so be gentle.
  14. This will be less like a dough and more like a very thick batter, but with oiled hands and a floured board you should be able to knead it.
  15. Turn this batter out onto a WELL FLOURED BOARD, and with oiled hands knead it LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS.
  16. Oil the dough and place it back into the bowl, cover it tightly and let it stand until it has doubled (60 min).
  17. Punch the dough down and form it into loaves.
  18. Let the loaves double in size (50 min).
  19. Bake the loaves in a preheated 400F oven for 15 minutes, brush with some of the egg whites (beaten) then turn down the oven to 350°F Continue baking for 30-40 minutes until the loaves are hollow sounding.
  20. Personal notes:.
  21. Grease loaf pans well.
  22. Remove the rim from a coffee can and bake these loaves in them for an authentic round loaf, be sure to keep the loaves below 1/2 full in the can or you will have a mushroom top.
  23. This bread makes extra-ordinarily good cinnamon buns.
  24. This bread also makes the most supreme French Toast.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1230.03 Kcal (5150 kJ)
Calories from fat 461.01 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 51.22g 79%
Cholesterol 276.64mg 92%
Sodium 3715.5mg 155%
Potassium 763.37mg 16%
Total Carbs 167.84g 56%
Sugars 31.97g 128%
Dietary Fiber 15.99g 64%
Protein 28.61g 57%
Vitamin C 5mg 8%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 5%
Iron 10.3mg 57%
Calcium 479.1mg 48%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 308.96 Kcal (1294 kJ)
Calories from fat 115.8 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12.87g 79%
Cholesterol 69.49mg 92%
Sodium 933.27mg 155%
Potassium 191.75mg 16%
Total Carbs 42.16g 56%
Sugars 8.03g 128%
Dietary Fiber 4.02g 64%
Protein 7.19g 57%
Vitamin C 1.3mg 8%
Iron 2.6mg 57%
Calcium 120.3mg 48%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 28.1
    Points
  • 33
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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