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Swedish Limpa Bread

From Stan Wiley Country Picnic Cookbook (1977).

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A historical recipe

Stan Wiley Country Picnic Cookbook, by Inc. Stan Wiley (1977).

Sweden

Known as a Swedish recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 1/2 cup honey

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. 1-1/2 pkg.
  2. yeast 1/4 cup warm water + 1/2 t.
  3. sugar 3 T.
  4. butter or margarine 1 cup milk 1-1/2 T.
  5. grated orange peel 1/3 cup molasses 2 cups rve flour 1 cup wlieat flour 3-1/2 cups white flour (approx.) 11.
  6. salt 11.
  7. ground cumin seed 11.
  8. ground fennel seed 1/2 cup honey or sugar Melted butter Combine yeast with sugar water beforehand to activate.
  9. Melt 3 T.
  10. butter, add milk and heat until scalded.
  11. Cool to 100°.
  12. Add orange peel, molasses and yeast mixture.
  13. Add rye flour, wheat Hour, white Hour, salt, cumin, tennel and sugar or honey.
  14. Mix well.
  15. Knead for 10 minutes.
  16. Place in iarge greased bowl.
  17. Set in warm place to rise until nearly doubled in bulk (about 1-1/2 hrs.).
  18. Punch down;
  19. Form into two loaves and place in well greased loaf pans or baking sheet.
  20. Allow to rise until almost doubled in bulk (about 1 hr.).
  21. Bake on lower oven shelf at 350° for 30-35 minutes.
  22. Brush tops with melted butter and cool before eating.
  23. Freezes well.
  24. Second place winner.
  25. Breads.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Baking tray
  • Cake tin
  • Mixing bowl
  • Grater
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From Stan Wiley Country Picnic Cookbook (1977), printed page 33, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/stanwileycountrypicniccookbook1977

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.