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Swedish Coffee Bread

A historical recipe from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, by Marion Harris Neil (1922).

A historical recipe

A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, by Marion Harris Neil (1922). Project Gutenberg eBook #78849.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, by Marion Harris Neil (1922). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #78849 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78849). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Sweden. Associated with Sweden by a demonym leading its title: Swedish (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cupfuls flour Remove seeds
  • 1 yeast

Method

  1. 2 cupfuls hot milk ¾ cupful sugar ½ cupful Crisco ½ teaspoonful salt 15 cardamom seeds 1 yeast cake 2 cupfuls flour Remove seeds from cardamoms and grind fine, add to hot milk with Crisco, sugar, and salt.
  2. When lukewarm add yeast cake mixed with a little tepid water and flour.
  3. Mix and allow to rise.
  4. Then add flour enough to make stiff dough.
  5. Knead and let rise again, then make into rolls or loaves.
  6. Let rise again and bake in moderate oven till ready.
  7. Sufficient for eighteen rolls or two small loaves.