Fancy coffee bread^
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Milk, scalded |
| 1 | Yeast cake | |
| 2 | Egg yolks, beaten | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| pinch | Cardamom | |
| 5 | cups | To 6 flour |
| ½ | cup | Butter |
Directions
Cool milk to lukewarm. Add yeast and 1 teaspoon of the sugar; let stand 10 minutes. Add egg yolks, salt, sugar and cardamom; mix well.
Stir in flour to make a soft dough. Let raise about an hour. Roll out dough quite thin adding more flour if necessary. Spread dough with butter; cut into three strips; fold each strip so that the butter is on the inside; braid the strips. Cut into loaves or make a wreath.
Let raise again about an hour; brush top with egg whites and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Many of the recipes in this collection did not contain amounts or oven temperatures. I have typed them in as they appear in the book, typos and all.
Depression Era Recipes Patricia R. Wagner ISBN 0-934860-55-6 Entered by Carolyn Shaw 5-95
Submitted By CAROLYN SHAW On 06-15-95