Cardamom bread

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Milk
½ cup Sugar
7 cups Flour
1 tablespoon Cardamom
¼ cup Butter
2¼ teaspoon Yeast
1 Egg

Directions

Scald the milk. Place milk, sugar, and butter in a large mixing bowl.

When the milk is lukewarm, add the yeast, the egg, the cardamom, and 4 cups of the flour; beat thoroughly. Gradually add the remaining flour. Knead until smooth and elastic.

Place the dough in a greased bowl and brush top with melted butter. Let rise until doubled in bulk (2 to 4 hours). Punch down and knead again.

Shape and place in bread pans. Brush with melted butter and let rise until very light (1 or 2 hours).

Bake 15 to 20 minutes.

SOURCE >from lara@... >from Caravanserai: Mixing Spices with History: Recipes With Cardamom www.bayarea.net/~emerald/caravan/ Site has information about the history of cardamom, its storage, uses and folklore and mail order. Busted by phannema@... (jan 1998) Notes: MAKES 2 LOAVES. TIPS: Have all ingredients at room temperature.

Preheat oven to 400F and grease two bread pans.

Recipe by: Caravanserai: Recipes with Cardamom Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #1018 by KitPATh <phannema@...> on Jan 16, 1998

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