Christmas Bread: Stollen

Overview

This Christmas bread, which doesn’t require any molds, is not to be missed. There are only raisins but not dried fruits. It doesn’t matter, just use various melon seeds instead; there is no almond slices, which were later renamed as almonds. Domestic almonds are also good, but not too many almonds. Not everyone can get used to the special almond flavor. There are also some little pine nuts who come to join in the fun. Turn the stollen of various dried fruits into a combination of nuts and raisins. The room temperature is only 10 degrees, maybe even lower late at night. I wonder how the dough will grow at such temperatures? At least, it won't grow too much, right? The fact is, it has changed almost nothing, at least, not as significantly as imagined. When I woke up, I thought I could start plastic surgery quickly, but who knew that I still had to create conditions for it to grow and wait for it to grow slowly. Finally out of the oven. Looking at the almost full bowl of melted butter, I wondered: Could it be that Teacher Meng wiped out the entire 100 grams of butter? How fat is that? No matter what, just apply one layer and leave the rest of the oil. When it cools down, sprinkle it with a thick layer of powdered sugar. Doesn’t it look like snow? However, you can give it as a gift to someone else, and if you want to eat it yourself, you still have to dust off the powdered sugar - pure sugar, how sweet it is. . .

Tags

• baking
• children
• bread
• afternoon tea
• birthday
• brandy
• butter
• candied orange peel
• high gluten flour
• melt butter
• milk powder
• pine nuts
• pumpkin seeds
• raisins
• sunflower seed kernels
• watermelon seeds
• cinnamon powder
• dry yeast
• fine sugar
• powdered sugar
• salt
• small almond
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Dough ingredients: 250g high-gluten flour, 40g fine sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 3g dry yeast, 10g milk powder, 1 tsp cinnamon powder, 1 tablespoon brandy, 125g water, 65g butter

   

2. 2 Fruit ingredients: 65g raisins, 25g sunflower seeds, 25g watermelon seeds, 25g pumpkin seeds, 5g almonds, 5g pine nuts, 50g candied orange peel, 150g brandy

   

3. 3 Raisins are soaked in brandy for more than 5 hours in advance

   

4. 4 Drain and set aside

   

5. 5 Pour all dough ingredients except butter into bread machine

   

6. 6 Stir into a dough and add butter

   

7. 7 Continue stirring until the film is pulled out

   

8. 8 Take it out and add all the fruit ingredients

   

9. 9 Knead into a uniform dough

   

10. 10 Place in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and proceed with basic fermentation

    

11. 11 Let the dough double in size

    

12. 12 Deflate the air, divide into 2 equal parts, roll into balls, and let rest for about 15 minutes

    

13. 13 Roll out into an oval shape 20 cm long and 15 cm wide

    

14. 14 Fold in half

    

15. 15 Press with a rolling pin

    

16. 16 Put it into the baking pan and let it ferment for about 60 minutes until the dough grows

    

17. 17 Brush the surface with egg wash

    

18. 18 Put in the oven, middle layer, heat up to 180 degrees, heat down to 160 degrees, bake for about 25 minutes

    

19. 19 The surface is golden brown

    

20. 20 Prepare decoration materials: 20 grams of melted butter, appropriate amount of powdered sugar

    

21. 21 After the bread is baked, brush evenly with melted butter and let cool

    

22. 22 After cooling, sift an appropriate amount of powdered sugar

    

23. 23 Cut into pieces and eat