Baisin Bread

Ingredients

• 2 yeast cakes
• 1 cup of lukewarm milk
• 1 teaspoonful sugar
• 1 pint of flour
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 6 ounces butter
• 6 ounces sugar
• 2 eggs
• the grated rind of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cupful seedless raisins
• 1 cupful fine-sliced citron

Method

1. 1

   Break yeast into lukewarm milk, add sugar, and let rise.

2. 2

   Sift flour into a bowl, add salt, milk, and yeast, mix into a smooth batter.

3. 3

   Cover and let rise until very light.

4. 4

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and lemon rind, mix well.

5. 5

   Add sponge and sufficient flour to make a soft dough.

6. 6

   Add raisins and citron, knead until smooth, let rise until doubled, mold into a loaf, let rise again, brush with egg and milk, and bake for 1 hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 368. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baisin Bread. — Break 2 yeast cakes into 1 cup of lukewarm milk, add 1 teaspoonf ul sugar, set the cup in a warm place till the yeast rises to the surface. Sift 1 pint of flour into a bowl, add 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 cup lukewarm milk, and the yeast, mix into a smooth batter ; cover and set it in a warm place to rise till very light, which will take about 1 hour. In the meantime stir 6 ounces butter with 6 ounces sugar to a cream, add 2 eggs and the grated rind of 1 lemon, mix well together ; then add the sponge and suffi- cient flour to make a soft dough. Turn it on to a floured board ; add Vs cupful seedless raisins and 1 cupful flne-sliced citron ; work until it does not stick to the hands. Beturn the dough to the bowl, cover and let it rise in a warm place to double its size, then mold it lightly into a loaf, put into a round buttered form or in a form with a tube in center ; let it rise again to double its size, brush over with beaten egg mixed with a little milk, and bake 1 hour in a medium- hot oven, or till done. Yienna Bolls. — Break 2 yeast cakes into Yg cup of lukewarm milk, add 1 teaspoonful sugar

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