Sweet Bread, Finnish Style
By: Minttu
Published: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 4:26am

Ingredients




litres milk
50 grams yeast
2 teaspoons salt
2 dl sugar
2 teaspoons cardamon (not the pods, but open them and use the bits inside)
1 egg
14 dl wheat flour
100 grams butter

Preparation

1 Add yeast to hand warm milk. 2 Mix with salt, sugar, cardamon and egg. 3 Add flour little by little, whisk more at first to mix some air in to the dough. 4 Knead until it feels alive in your hands, say maybe 10 minutes or so. 5 Add soft butter towards the end of kneading. 6 Let rest in a warm place, covered with a tea towel. 7 When the dough size has doubled, knead it softly to remove the airbubbles, for couple of minutes. 8 You can be creative as how you mold the dough, plaited loafs, boy- or girl-shape, cinnamon buns or simple ball. Brush with egg and maybe some sugar before baking at 225 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes or so. If you're doing a loaf, it will take longer.