How to cook German Christmas Stollen Bashny.Net

Stollen — traditional German Christmas cookies. Each Baker has its own recipe-ingredients seasonings and spices that give storenum different bakers a little different taste. After baking Stollen coat with melted butter and thickly sprinkle with powdered sugar. Stollen baked in advance, for 2-3 weeks and sometimes a month before Christmas, and stored — ready for a holiday in a cool place.

Ingredients:

• Flour from Emmer wheat 4 cups
  
  
• sourdough 250g
  
  
• Sugar (in the dough 0.5-1 glass;)
  
  
• Chicken egg (in the dough) — 2 PCs
  
  
• Raisins (of different varieties) — 400 g
  
  
• Almonds (crushed) — 50 g
  
  
• Walnuts (crushed) — 50 g
  
  
• rum 100 ml
  
  
• a mixture of your favorite spices (cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves, anise, pepper — to your taste)
  
  
• Zest of 2 lemons
  
  
• Dried apricots (chopped) — 100 g
  
  
• Butter (in the dough) — 300 g
  
  
• Salt — 0.5 tsp.
  
  

1. Advance for a few days to soak the raisins in cognac.2. On the day of preparation stolen — grind the cleaned almonds, walnuts, chopped dried apricots and add all this to raisins.
3. In large mixing bowl pour 4 cups of flour, half a Cup of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, chopped lemon zest and spices. Put 300 gr. softened butter and all the oil is triturated in chips.

5. Add the leaven. It is kneaded. Add 2 eggs. It is kneaded. The dough turns out pretty cool, let this not discourage you. Knead thoroughly until smooth.
Cover the bowl with a lid, a thick towel and put in warm place for about an hour.6. After an hour, add all fruits and nuts-candied, again knead the dough and put again to approach. Oven pre-heated to 200 degrees. 7. Divide the dough into 2 halves. Lay both pieces on a baking sheet. Every mash in the form of an oval, in the middle of doing a longitudinal dent using a rolling pin, fold in half. 8. Put in oven on 200 degrees for 15 minutes, then the temperature switchable 180 degrees, cover the top of the muffins with foil and bake for another hour (or more). Cooking time depends on the oven. It is necessary that Stollen thoroughly.

Readiness check with a toothpick or thin stick. Hot cakes grease with melted butter and thickly sprinkle with powdered sugar on all sides. The layer of powder should be thick. Wrap tightly in foil or parchment, then in a cotton towel. Put in a cool place. Mature stollery 2 — 4 weeks, become more fragrant and soft. If something seems wrong — it is better to place them in a cold place (e.g., a box of vegetables in the fridge). Fun and tasty Christmas and new year holidays! published

 

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Source: www.povarenok.ru/recipes/show/37263/