Finnish Easter Bread (Pääsiäisleipä)
This Finnish Easter bread made to celebrated the arrival of spring and Easter. This is a cylindrical bread made in large milking pails.This is simple bread scented with cardamom, lemon, orange zest.
Servings: 12
Calories: 240kcal
Ingredients
- Sponge
- 197.5 g all purpose flour
- 107 g cream
- 33 g water
- 2 g yeast
- For Bread
- 190.5 g all-purpose flour
- 102.5 dark rye flour
- 88 g water
- 103 g milk
- 32.5 g egg yolk about 2 egg yolk
- 2 g yeast
- 3 g salt
- 56.5 butter
- All of sponge
- 2.5 g ground cardamom
- 2.5 g lemon zest
- 2.5 g orange zest
- 71.5 g golden raisins
- 51.5 g almonds
- egg wash
- sugar
- almonds
Instructions
- Heat the cream to 180F remove the pan and set aside.
- In another add flour, water, cooled cream, yeast and mix well and set aside.
- Cover bowl, or transfer sponge to a covered container, and ferment at 80-82F, until doubled and just starting to collapse back on itself. It took about 3 hours.
- While sponge is fermenting, prepare ingredients: chop almonds, soak raisins in some hot water; set all aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flours, salt, cardamom. Add lemon and orange zest mix so that evenly distributed in the flour.
- When sponge is ready, place in large bowl and combine with 95F water; I used a dough whisk to do this.
- Add flour mixture and mix with dough whisk and mix well
- To this add egg, yeast milk mixture and continue to knead
- Gradually incorporate the butter and knead once again to combine everything.
- Drain the raisins and add almonds and mix well once again.
- bulk ferment for 2 hours at 80F, with a stretch and fold after one hour.
- Divide into Six 120g pieces and then rest into single piece . Preshape tightly, as boules. Shape and place in greased tins. Cover with plastic, proof at 80F until risen 1" above pan. Do an egg wash and add pearl sugar and sliced almonds.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Remove plastic wrap, and place pans in oven. Reduce oven temperature to 350F and bake for approximately 30 minutes, for muffin tin and 35-40 minutes for coffee tin or until done.
- Remove from oven, remove breads from pans, and while hot. If you want you can brush with butter or simple syrup.
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Nutrition
Calories: 240kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 52mg | Sodium: 141mg | Potassium: 130mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 300IU | Vitamin C: 0.7mg | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 1.9mg
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