Swedish Bread
1/2 Cup Butter or Margarine
1 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup of Sugar
1 Tsp. Salt
2 Tsp. Ground Cardamom
1 Pkg. of Yeast
2 Eggs
4 Cups of Flour
Dissolve yeast in approximately 3 tablespoons of warm water, cover and let it foam up for 15 minutes. Meantime, put butter and milk in a saucepan and bring to a boil. As soon as it boils…turn off heat and set aside. In a large mixing bowl…add sugar, salt cardamom. Then add simmering milk to dry mix, add eggs, then add the yeast. Mix well. Then add aproximately 4 cups of flour to liquid ingredients until mixture begins to pull away from sides. Cover and let rise in warm area until it doubles. After it doubles, take dough out, knead it and divide into halves. Then divide each half into 3 parts. Roll each part into balls, then roll balls into even strands. Take one greased cookie sheet and braid strands together on sheet side by side to make two separate loaves. Cover and let rise until loaves double. Lightly brush on a mixture of egg yolk and 2 tablespoons of water on top of loaves. Bake on 350 for 20 minutes.
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