Fruechte brot

20 slices

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
27 ounces Pears, dried
3½ ounce Apricots
3½ ounce Plums, dried, pitted
2⅔ ounce Oranges, dried, cubed
3½ ounce Dates, dried
6 ounces Walnutmeat
1 1/16 ounce Yeast
3½ ounce Sugar
2 tablespoons Butter
2 3/16 pounds Flour
1 teaspoon Salt
3½ ounce Raisins
½ teaspoon Orangepeel, grated
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
2 tablespoons Cherry Liquor(Kirschwasser)
½ teaspoon Ground cloves
½ teaspoon Ingwer powder
1 teaspoon Kardamom Powder
½ cup Warm Water
Powdered Sugar

Directions

1. Cube the pears, apricots, oranges and figs 2. Chop the walnuts. 3.

Break up the yeast and mix with one teaspoon sugar and the lukewarm water and cover it and let stand on a warm place for 10 minutes. 4. Melt the butter and mix with salt and flour; add the yeastmix

and knead, cover and let it rise on a warm place until doubled in size. 5. Mix raisins, sugar, grated lemonpeel, cinnamon, cloves, ingwer,

cardamom and the dried fruits and the nuts; knead them into dough.

6. Form a loaf and put onto a waxpaper covered cookiesheet. 7.

Preheat oven to 200 C and bake for 75 minutes. 8. When cool sprinkle with a little powdered sugar.

Out of Funk Uhr magazine

Translated by Brigitte Sealing

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