Dutch Sugar Bread
- 3 tablespoons ginger syrup
- milk enough, so that added with the ginger syrup you get 200 ml.
- 2 eggs
- 5 1/4 tablespoons butter melted
- 3 2/3 cups bread flour
- 9/16 tablespoon salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoons dry active yeast instant
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 2 pieces fresh ginger
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- First, make the ginger syrup. Peel the ginger and finely slice it into rounds.
- Add the ginger, sugar, and water to a nonstick pot. Boil until the ginger is tender. Reserve in the refrigerator.
- Remove 3 tablespoons of the syrup and add it to a measuring cup. Fill the measuring cup with milk until 200 milliliters is reached. Pour this into a large bowl.
- Whisk in the eggs and the melted butter.
- Add salt and yeast to the flour and add these dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Knead the dough together until the glutens start to form and the dough is not as sticky and elastic. Cover with a damp cloth and set aside to double in volume.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Once doubled, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Carefully working from underneath with your fingertips, stretch the dough out into a rectangle the side of your baking sheet.
- Sprinkle over the dough the sugar and cinnamon.
- Make a jelly roll with the dough. Starting on the long end of the rectangle, tightly roll towards the other long end. Transfer the roll onto a greased and floured baking sheet. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit to double in volume.
- Bake 40 minutes until golden. Cool on a baking rack and serve.
ginger syrup, milk, eggs, butter, bread flour, salt, yeast, ground cinnamon, sugar, ginger, sugar, water
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Dutch-Sugar-Bread-632244 (may not work)