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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Scandinavian >> Swedish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Sift flour, add the sugar, salt, cardomom and dry yeast. Set aside. | 2. Grind the sugar and saffron threads in a mortar and pestle. | 3. Heat the milk and butter together and cool to lukewarm. Add the saffron/sugar mix to this. | 4. Add about 1 1/2 cups of flour to the milk mix and beat for 3-4 minutes. | 5. Sprinkle 1/4 cup on workbench, pour out the batter and then sprinkle the remaining flour ontop. Leave sit for 5 minutes. | 6. Knead in the flour and keep kneading until you have a smooth dough - about 7-10 minutes. | 7. Lightly oil and bowl and place dough in, covering with cling wrap. Let prove in a warm spot until doubled. | 8. Turn out and knead in the currants. Divide the dough into 3 portions and roll into sausage shapes. | 9. Lay the 3 lengths of dough along side and brush the 3 ends with egg and stick together. Plat as you would for a braid. | 10. Finish the ends by brushing with a small amoun of egg, stick together and tuck under. | 11. Place on greased baking sheet and prove again until almost doubled in size. | 12. Heat oven to 190°C. | 13. Brush dough with egg wash and bake for 35 minutes. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
saffron strand	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
sugar	1	teaspoon		18.354	4.5908	0.0	0.0
cardamom seed	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
milk	1	cup		148.84	11.6632	7.686	7.9788
butter	125			10687.5	491.0625	333.9375	900.0
flour	2	cups	bread	729.12	53.6256	63.5208	34.692
sugar	1/2	cup		18.354	4.5908	0.0	0.0
yeast	2	teaspoons		22.2	2.4504	2.8656	0.10800000000000001
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
currant	1/4	cup		17.64	4.3064	0.392	0.1148
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.