Sweet Bread, Finnish Style

8 ingredients
6 steps

Ingredients

  • 4 1/4 cups milk
  • 4 1/8 tablespoons yeast
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 7/8 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cardamon not the pods, but open them and use the bits inside
  • 1 egg
  • 5 15/16 cups wheat flour
  • 7 tablespoons butter

Directions

  1. 1
    Add yeast to hand warm milk.
  2. 2
    Mix with salt, sugar, cardamon and egg.
  3. 3
    Add flour little by little, whisk more at first to mix some air in to the dough.
  4. 4
    Knead until it feels alive in your hands, say maybe 10 minutes or so.
  5. 5
    Add soft butter towards the end of kneading.
  6. 6
    Let rest in a warm place, covered with a tea towel.

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