Fruit Bread
Delicious, rich and buttery bread spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom- Perfect for winter.
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Baking Tray
Ingredients
For soaking
- 125 ml Rum
- 100 gm Candied Orange Peels
- 100 gm Candied lemon Peels
- 300 gm Raisins
- 100 gm Powdered Almonds
Ingredients for the dough
- 500 gm Refined Flour
- 1 tsp Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Cardamom Powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 15 gm Instant Dry Yeast
- 100 ml Lukewarm Milk
- 80 gm Sugar
- 150 gm Unsalted Butter; at room temperature
Additionally
- 50 gm Melted Butter
- Powdered Sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine rum with raisins, candied lemon peels, candies orange peels, and almond powder. Mix it well. Cover and soak it overnight.
- The following day, start the process of making the bread.
- In a mixing bowl, combine lukewarm milk with yeast. Let it rest for 5 minutes.
- In another mixing bowl, combine refined flour, sugar, salt and spice powder.
- Make a well in the middle. Add the milk and yeast mixture.
- Knead it.
- To this kneading dough, add the rum mixture and butter.
- Combine everything well.
- Cover and rest this mixture for about an hour in a warm place.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C for about 10 minutes.
- After the dough has rested for an hour, divide it into two portions.
- Bake for 1 hour at 180 degrees C.
- Once baked, poke holes in the bread.
- Brush melted butter.
- Pass powdered sugar through a sieve and coat the surface of the bread generously with it.
- Slice when cooled.