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Prep Time: 120 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 150 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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A 3 braided bread with sugar crystals and flaked almonds; very pretty bread. Found on Dutch site. Zaar tour 6. Ingredients:
150 g butter or 2/3 cup butter |
500 ml milk, scalded or 2 2/3 cups milk |
100 g sugar or 2/3 cup sugar |
42 g yeast or 2 (21 g) packages yeast |
1 lemon, juice of |
2 eggs |
1 kg bread flour or 7 cups bread flour |
2 teaspoons salt |
1 egg |
2 tablespoons sugar crystals |
2 tablespoons sliced almonds |
Directions:
1. Add butter to scalded milk; add sugar; add yeast; beat together.
2. Add juice of lemon and eggs; beat again.
3. Add bread flour and salt; knead until smooth.
4. Put in buttered bowl; cover with damp cloth; let rise until double; punch down.
5. On floured board, knead dough again.
6. Now forming comes; one can twist the loaf from 3 strands or divide in half.
7. Start in middle and braid out to both ends; braid tight.
8. Lay it on a greased baking sheet.
9. Cover with damp towel.
10. Beat egg; brush loaf.
11. Let rise again.
12. Sprinkle with kosher salt, big sugar crystals, and flaked almonds.
13. Let rise while oven preheats.
14. Bake at about 45 minutes baking; if getting too brown lower heat to 350.
15. These are European baking temperatures so test the bread at 20 minutes.
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