Mama's Finnish Coffee Bread |
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Prep Time: 240 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 270 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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mama never bought bread. she baked bread 3 times a week until she paissed away at the age of 96. this was her famous coffee bread recipe.she handed it down to me. i treasure it as i treasured her. i buy the already shelled cardamom seeds (not ground) and whisk them through a coffee bean grinder to crush them up. great sliced, toasted and buttered. Ingredients:
4 cups milk |
1/2 lb butter |
2 1/2 cups white sugar |
6 beaten eggs |
2 teaspoons salt |
1 tablespoon cardamom seed, crushed |
5 lbs unbleached flour |
3 (1/4 ounce) packages yeast, 3-4 pkg, in |
1/2 cup warm water, with |
1 pinch sugar |
1 egg, with |
sugar, small amount, for glaze |
Directions:
1. dissolve yeast in warm -not too hot- water with a small amount of sugar to feed the yeast. in a large pot,heat milk and butter until boiling. remove from heat and cool until lukewarm. beat eggs and sugar together. add salt, cardamom, flour and yeast mixture. kmead well on a floured surface. cover and let rise til double. separate dough into halves and then separate each half into 3 loaves.(6 loaves total) separate each loaf into 3 sections. roll each section between your hands into long tubular shapes. braid the 3 sections together and tuck ends. put loaves on a greased cookie sheet. let rise double again. bake at 325 for 15 minutes. remove from oven. brush top of loaves with a beaten egg mixed with a little sugar. sprinkle sugar over egg glaze. return to oven for 15 minutes more.
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