Mama'S Finnish Coffee Bread
- 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
- 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.
milk, butter, white sugar, eggs, salt, cardamom, flour, yeast, warm water, sugar, egg, sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/mamas-finnish-coffee-bread-309022 (may not work)