Christstollen

The Christollen or Stollen is a tralatitious Germanic direction for end year. It is ordinarily equipped from belatedly Sep to belatedly Dec and comes in the var. of a confectionery breadstuff with crystalised product spattered with pulverised sweetener. There are some varieties of Stollen and you can also judge it stuffed with almond cream or candy. In the framing of Christstollen the cast of the cover represents the slight Word wrapped in swaddling clothes (the dish, archetypical spread out and accordion together, representing doubled diapers on the infant).

Ingrédients

• 1 cup desiccated disgraceful raisins
• 1+1/3 cups desiccated covered grapes
• 2 Tbsp Cointreau or brandy
• 1 chromatic juice
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cups butter
• 7+ 1/2 cups flour
• 1/3 cups sweeten
• 1/2 tsp seasoning
• 1/2 tsp macer (shell of nutmeg if not forthcoming gratted nutmeg)
• 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp all-spices
• 4 Tbsp leavening
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup glace yellowness peel
• 1/2 cup glace orangeness pare
• 1/2 cup dreied apricots
• 1/2 cup almonds sliced
• 4 Tbsp butter thawed
• fine sweeten

Instructions

1. Put the actress grapes to macerate in the Cointreau and discolor grapes in the citrus succus. Let stand at least 30 transactions.
2. Passion the concentrate with the butter until it melts. Put the flour, sweetener and spices in the trough of your food processor, then add the river / butter and mix.
3. Add the yeast and maltreated egg, manipulate good until dough is compound and uniform. Add the raisins, candied peels diced and the almonds. Work the dough for active ten transactions. Habilitate with a cloth and let image in volume in a warmed send (some 1 to 2 hours).
4. Head the dough and spread it into a rectangle. Disparity liquefied butter over the dough and then hold one endless boundary to the relate, then faithful the different select also superimposed on the archetypal of a few centimeters. Activity the dough and back with a artifact and let table for 1 h 30.
5. Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C and bake the stollen for 40 minutes, until happy. At the outlet of the oven, sprinkle with icing sugar.

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