Recipe - Christmas Cardamon Bread

1 One half cup Milk
5 Eggs
Three fourths cup Butter
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon (rounded) Cardamon
1 pack Yeast
9 cup Flour (approximate)

Manual Bread Making (NOT Converted to B/M) Yield: Three 12" Braided
Loaves

* Scald Milk, ADD Sugar, Butter, Salt, and Cardamon. LET COOL ......
* Dissolve Yeast in One fourth cup warm water, ADD Eggs and 2 cups Flour .... Mix
well (Doughhook on KA works well) .... Let REST for 10 or 15 minutes * ADD
Flour (7 cups +/) until a STIFF Dough is formed .... KNEAD, then (cover
with Towel) let RISE to DOUBLE in size .... takes about 2 hours.
* PUNCH Dough down and DIVIDE into 9 equal parts .... ROLL each of the 9
pieces of dough into strips about 18" long ..... then BRAID the dough
strips, 3 at a time, into three loaves, each about 12" long overall.
* Place loaves on buttered Cookie Sheets and let RISE to DOUBLE in size
.... BAKE at 400 F until crust is DARK BROWN or until Bread is well BAKED.
* Brush a GLAZING Liquid over the Loaves .. One half cup water, One half cup Sugar,
1 TBS Butter .. Place back in the Oven for a minute to dry.

Posted on $P BREADS AND PIZZA on 01/06 by JAMES MALIA (DCBC39A)

MM by Cathy Svitek