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oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 07 5:35 pm Post subject: Stollen bread/cake ?
Has anyone got a fool proof recipe i can use please for Stollen, Its a bread / cake thingy, i used Delia's recipe last night, i am using the result the build a new out house

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 07 5:43 pm Post subject:

Here's the recipe I use:

1 cup warm milk
3 tbsps honey
2 egg yolks
1/2 tsp salt
zest of 1 lemon
5 tbsps melted butter
3 cups strong white flour
1.5 tsps yeast (dried)
1 oz currants
2 oz raisins
2 oz sultanas
1 oz mixed peel
1 oz halved glace cherrries
1 oz roughly chopped almonds
11 oz marzipan

Make dough from first 8 ingredients. Allow to rise until roughly doubled. knead in the fruit and nuts. Leave to rise again.

Roll the marzipan into a sausage.

Roll the dough into a rectangle about 3/4cm thick and lay the marzipan along the middle. Wrap the dough around the sausage and tuck the ends in securely.

Leave to rise again, then bake at 200*C, 400*F or gas mark 6 until nice and brown!

Cool on a rack and dust with icing sugar once it's cool.

I do the kneading in a Kenwood Chef and bake in a Rayburn: works fine for me!

oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 07 5:56 pm Post subject:
Many Many thanks your a life saver xxxx

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 07 9:46 pm Post subject:
I'm giving it a go too - When I get round to it

oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 07 10:38 pm Post subject:
Not bad results, it smells great

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 07 10:39 pm Post subject:
wow!!!!!!! looks gorgeous! might be tempted to have a go myself

oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 07 7:54 am Post subject:
Guess what i am having a slice of for breakfast hehe

oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 07 7:54 am Post subject:
ok ........ slice or three

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 07 8:41 am Post subject:
Looks gorgeous, another candidate for the competition linked to over on the Christmas Cake thread?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 07 11:37 am Post subject:
Glad it worked! Looks really good. Try not to eat it all at once...

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 07 11:46 am Post subject:
Ooh. I fancy making a stollen, and yours looks a tad healthier than my recipe, M. How long does it keep?

oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 07 6:08 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

Ooh. I fancy making a stollen, and yours looks a tad healthier than my recipe, M.
How long does it keep?

Well Judith not very long lol

I needed to make it for the OH's Christmas do at her work, so most of it was gone by 8 am the next morning in a tuperware box, I was left with a nob end, and that had gone by 10 am lol, so by my reckoning about 8 to 12 hours is an average keeping time

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 07 6:19 pm Post subject:
Keeps quite well, actually, judith (as long as you don't eat it): up to a week, I should think, as long as it's not too warm.

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 07 8:24 pm Post subject:
I made it this afternoon and it looks fantastic - it nearly crawled out of the oven! Thanks Mochyn - Merry Christmas!

oldangrey

Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Posts: 48
Location: Melton Mowbray, Liecs

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 07 4:41 am Post subject:
Hmmmmmmmmmm you didn't save some for me?

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