Sig's Plaited Fruit Bread
Sig's Plaited Fruit Bread

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sig's plaited fruit bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This spiced bread recipe is a brilliant Easter baking idea. With the signature flavours of hot cross buns infused in a sweet enriched dough, serve this bread recipe toasted with plenty of butter. Adding spice and dried fruit to the basic plaited milk loaf turns it into a 'hot cross loaf', with all the warm fragrance.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sig's plaited fruit bread using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sig's Plaited Fruit Bread:
  1. Prepare plaited bread
  2. Get 1 tbsp activ dry yeast
  3. Get 65 ml each of lukewarm water and lukewarm milk
  4. Make ready 55 grams caster sugar (extra fine sugar)
  5. Make ready 1 egg
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  7. Take 55 grams butter at room temperature
  8. Take 500 grams plain white flour
  9. Make ready 1 extra egg beaten with two teaspoons of water for glazing (optional)
  10. Prepare filling
  11. Prepare 200 grams cooked and stoned prunes or dried apricots(these apricots don't need cooking, just soak in hot black tea, discard the liquid)
  12. Take 1 tsp grated orange rind
  13. Prepare 2 tsp grated lemon rind
  14. Get 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
  15. Get 45 grams butter, melted
  16. Take 55 grams very fine chopped almonds or walnuts
  17. Take 2 tbsp caster sugar

Please note, website has now changed - For full recipe and. See more ideas about Recipes, Food, Fruit bread. · Delicious Hummingbird Bread is made with mashed bananas, crushed pineapple, shredded coconut, and chopped pecans, with cinnamon cream cheese. Plaited loaves look fabulous and provide lots of lovely golden crust - perfect for serving with soup. Place the plaited dough onto a floured baking tray, and leave to prove for another hour, until risen again.

Steps to make Sig's Plaited Fruit Bread:
  1. In a large bowl combine the yeast and lukewarm water, stir and leave for at good 15 minutes
  2. Stir in the milk, sugar,salt, egg and soft butter. Slowly add 350 gr of the flour to make a soft dough.Transfer to a floured surface and add more flour as you need it to obtain a smooth and elastic dough
  3. Put into a clean bowl, cover and stand in a warm area leave to rise for 1 and1/2 hours
  4. To make the filling add all ingredients. Work into a rough to smooth paste. set aside
  5. Grease your baking sheet.Punch down the dough and transfer to a lightly floured surface. knead briefly and roll into a 15 -10 inch rectangle and carefully lift to baking sheet not to loose shape
  6. Spread the filling into the center, with a sharp knife cut 10 strips at an angle on either side, careful to cut just to the filling
  7. Fold up the end. neatly and fold the strips alternating, fold excess dough underneath at the end.Cover loosely with a tea towel and leave to rise in a warm place until doubled in size
  8. Preheat oven to 190 C / 385°F. Brush with the glaze bake until browned, about 30 minutes. transfer to a rack and cool.Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

This is another great holiday bread to make that belonged to my mother. She sometimes served this one, and it is a very old recipe. This bread is good the first day, but better the second. You may use dates instead of raisins if you wish. This recipe for Lithuanian fruit bread or vaisiu pyragas features a sweet yeast-raised dough studded with either chopped glaceed fruits or mixed dried fruits, as I've used here.

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