Stockholm Bread
Ingredients
- 6 1/2 cupfuls flour
- 1 yeast cake
- 2 1/2 cupfuls scalded milk
- 1/2 cupful melted butter
- 1 egg
- 2/3 cupful sugar
- 1/2 teaspoonful salt
- 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
Directions
Scald 1 cupful milk; when lukewarm, dissolve the yeast cake in it. Beat in 1 cupful flour and let the sponge rise till light; add the rest of the milk with 4 cupfuls flour, beat again and allow it to rise. Then add the butter, sugar, cinnamon, salt, and the egg beaten to a froth, also the remainder of the flour. Mix and knead on a floured baking board. Cover and raise. Roll the dough into coils about an inch and a half thick and twelve inches long. Braid them, pinch the ends together, set in a greased pan to rise, and bake in a moderate oven. Cool slightly, then brush with powdered sugar moistened with boiling water and slightly flavored with cinnamon.