Mom always made this Christmas morning.
2 cups scalded milk
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter melted
2/3 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cardamon
2 yeast cakes
1/4 cup lukewarm water
8 cups flour
2 eggs
Scald milk in small saucepan; stir in melted butter, salt, sugar, and cardamon. Cool mixture to luke warm. Pour water on yeast. Stir until dissolved. Pour into milk mixture. Add beaten eggs and 4 cups of flour. Beat well and work in remaining 4 cups of flour.
Place on board and knead until smooth. Place dough into greased bowl, cover with damp towel and let rise 1 hour. Punch dough and let rise again about 1 hour. Return to board and shape into 4 braids. Top with nuts and granulated sugar.
Bake at 350 degree oven until medium brown.
This was another recipe my Grandma had to stand by my great-grandmother with measuring equipment to translate “a little of this” and “quite a bit of that”.
Except for the cardamon, this recipe is remarkably similar to my mother’s Italian sweet bread recipe that she would make in the spring.
But it is no matter – I am grateful that you shared it, as I had lost the ‘translation’ of my mom’s recipe. (A lot of her secret recipes remain secret because she never writes them down 😕)
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These were all reconstructed by my grandmother cause Great grandma never measured anything. Cardamon seems to be the spice of choice for Swedes. It’s in everything
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Some of the best recipes stay in one’s head…no measuring necessary.
🙂
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But not so easy if you are the daughter in law trying to make it for your husband like his mom did
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LOL – good point!
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