STOLEN - German Bread

STOLEN - German Bread


Ingredients:
½ pound of flour100 grs. sugar200 grs. butter,1 pinch of ground cloves -1 pinch kümmel -1 grated orange peel, orange part only, the bitter white pith1 pinch of nutmeg (optional)2 spoons (soup) of milk powder1 teaspoon (tsp) of cinnamon powder.1 tablespoon rhum1 tablespoon (coffee salt2 to 3 eggs
Sponge:
1 cup (tea) of wheat flour1 cup of warm milk or water necessary or20 grs. fresh yeast or2 teaspoons (tsp) dry yeast.2 spoons (soup) of sugarHow to Prepare:In a bowl crumble the yeast with the sugar, add alternating flour and milk. Mix well.
Cover with a napkin, or place the bowl in a plastic bag, tightly closed.
Leave for 30 'minutes in hot weather and60 'minutes cold weather. Until a sponge.

 Stuffing - I:
Dried fruit125 grs. skinless almonds chopped or ground125 grs. dark seedless raisins125 grs. yellow seedless raisins125 grs. candied fruit washed and chopped (optional) or various other fruits (plum, cherry, apricot).If you want you can put fresh ricotta crumbled. (Optional)
How to Prepare:
Put on the table, ½ kilo of wheat flour, milk powder, make a well in the center.Throw the sponge (which is the starter ready) butter, eggs, go mixing until it is a homogeneous mass.If the dough is hard add more egg or milk, it is soft add some flour and wheat.Knead the dough well, as much as possible.
Then stretch the dough and go tearing, pulling with a spatula or your fingers, up and down for about a 15 'to 20' minutes.
What grows is not only the bread baking is the way to knead well.
Stretch the dough thickness of 1 cm, then distribute over the fruit.
Wrap and re-knead until it is all fruit inside.
If getting fruit popping out drive into the dough with your index finger.
Folding Stolen -
Make a round loaf width 10 cm in length and 30 press the upper side of the hand, making a bend of ridge type four fingers, then turn down.Let rise until doubles in volume.
Before baking brush with butter a whole loaf.
Once baked buttering again
Oven 180 ° C for 30 'to 40' minutes or until staining.
Serve in a wicker basket, lined with checkered tablecloth red or green kid.
If you prefer to do only with ricotta filling and raisins
Filling - II:
300-500 grams. ricotta200 grs. seedless raisins.