Arthur Winter (husband), Magn Winter and coffee bread in original Kitchen in cottage at Fosters Point
Magn Winter's Swedish Coffee Bread:
Combine
1
cup Sugar (white granulated)
1
tsp Salt
1/2
cup Crisco vegetable shortening
2 Tbs
Butter
1 tsp Ground cardamom
seeds (yes, I know the real seeds are very expensive
but they are better, use cardamom powder otherwise ... cardamom is the crucial
ingredient)
Grind the seeds yourself to get better piquancy
takes the seeds from about 7 large white cardamom pods
if you can only find the green pods ... maybe double this amount ... experiment)
~ 1+
cups Scalded milk
Then when not too hot or cold add
2 pkg
Dry yeast (standard package) or cake yeast
Then add
3
Eggs
5+ cups White flour (add gradually until proper consistency)
May have to get your hands on it to get the flour in
Let rise in a warm place until doubled
in volume ~ 1 hour
Punch down
let rise again until doubled in volume ~ 1 hour
knead and split in half
Split each half into thirds
Roll the thirds about 1 - 1 1/2 feet long, flatten a little,
coat the top with melted butter,
sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, fold
along the long direction over these additions (by doing
this
you are making new rolls with a core of butter and cinnamon sugar).
Braid 3 of the thirds into a loaf and do the same with the
remaining thirds = 2 loaves
[alternatively if you do not want to be fancy you can just
put the dough in bread pans]
Coat the top with egg yoke (takes about 1 egg yoke -- mix it
up)
Sprinkle with sugar (slightly granular is nice)
Let loaves rise about 1/2 hour in a warm place
Bake at 350 degrees until done
(nothing on a poked in toothpick) ~ 30 minutes
(you will fine tune the recipe on succeeding efforts)
Enjoy.
Arthur Winter (husband), Magn Winter and coffee bread in original Kitchen
in cottage at Fosters Point
Paula's version (on left) and Steve's version (on right)