Baking
German Coffee Bread
A measured 1910 bake built around scalded milk, preserved with its original method and page citation.
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What you’ll need
Ingredients
- 1 cup scalded milk
- ⅓ cup butter, or butter and lard
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- ⅓ yeast cake dissolved in
- ¼ cup lukewarm milk
- ½ cup raisins stoned and cut in pieces
Make it happen
Directions
- 1
Add butter, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake, egg well beaten, flour to make stiff batter, and raisins; cover, and let rise over night; in morning spread in buttered dripping-pan one-half inch thick. Cover and let rise again. Before baking, brush over with beaten egg, and cover with following mixture: Melt three tablespoons butter, add one-third cup sugar and one teaspoon cinnamon. When sugar is partially melted, add three tablespoons flour.
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