Norwegian julekake or jule kaga

12 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Milk
½ cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
½ cup Butter or margarine
¼ cup Warm water
1 pack Yeast
½ teaspoon Ground cardamom
4¼ cup Sifted flour(about)
¾ cup Seedles golden raisins
¾ cup Cnadied mixed fruit
1 Egg white; beaten

Directions

submitted by: LeiG@...

Scald milk, stir in sugar, salt and butter. cool to luke warm. Measure warm water large bowl. Sprinkle or cumble in yeast, stir until dissolved. stir in luke warm milk mixture, caradamom and 2 cups of flour. Beat until smooth. Add raisins and candied fruit. blend well. Add enough additional flour to make

a soft dough.

Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease all sides. Cover. Let rise in warm place, free from draft, until doubled in bulk (about 1½ hours). Punch down. Let rise again until doubled in bulk (about 1 hour).

Shape dough into a round ball and place in a greased 9 inch layer cake pan.

Flatten top. cover. let rise in warm place, until doubled in bulk, (about 45 minutes). Bake in moderate oven (350deg F) for 1 hour. remove from pan and brush with beaten egg white. makes 1 loaf.

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