Thumbnail Table For Christmas

Thumbnail Table For Christmas

Christmas Bread - German

(4 large unit, or 8 medium or 16 small)
See below for the decoration of the thumbnails Christmas table.


ingredients:

1 pound of whole wheat flour
6-8 egg whites into firm snow, placing last.
200 grs. not cold butter not margarine serves.
2 cups (tea) brown sugar
2 cups (tea) of honey, no use other type of honey.

Other Ingredients:

1/2 liter of raw milk (curd) with broth 2 lemons. Book.
2 tablespoons (soup) of chemical baking powder.
2 tablespoons (soup) of cocoa liquor or rum or kirche (cherry brandy)
2 tablespoons of milk powder, 1 pinch of salt.

spices:

1 spoon (soup) of cinnamon powder,
1 teaspoon (tsp) ground cloves
  ½ teaspoon (tsp) grated fresh ginger
½ tablespoon (coffee) caraway (Kümmel) ground
1pitada nutmeg.
2 tablespoons (soup) of vanilla extract,
1 tbsp (tablespoons) grated orange peel (orange part only) the bitter white pith,
1 spoon (soup) of lemon peel only the green part of the white bitter.

filling:

150 grs. Washed and dried fruit chopped into cubes.
300 grs. ground nuts or coarsely chopped, or cut in half or into 4 parts.
200 grs. various fruits, turkish figs, apricots, prunes
yellow raisins, dark raisins seedless dates.
All fruits are chopped and pressed wheat flour. Book.

Note:

I - Option:

If you want you can only use walnuts or almonds 600 grs. being 400 grams, ground and 200gsm. well drizzling bites.

II - Option nuts with raisins.

III - Option; nuts, raisins and prunes.

How to Prepare the pasta bread:

Beat the brown sugar in a mixer with the butter, add the egg yolks, beating becomes, then put the honey, curd and if you need to use whey, buttermilk may be all it is anyway. Book.

In separate, place in a large bowl well in flour, salt, milk powder, baking powder, and spices, make a hole in the center, adding the mass of an electric mixer, gradually and slowly, until finishing all mass.

Then add the chopped and floured fruit.
Finally the egg whites, mixing until a homogeneous mass. Throw the heavy mass in the egg whites gradually and slowly until finished.

Grease the 4 forms with margarine, place parchment paper and re-greasing.
The shapes are large 20 X10 cm pound cake.
8 or small pound cake forms, or
16 individual round molds (thumbnails) to present itself.
Preheated oven for l60 ° C after 30'minutos pass the temperature to 180 ° C for about 60-90 minutes, this is depending on the size of the bread.
Watch out:

Place half of the batter into muffin cups, grows too.
Bake at 180 ° C Miniature keep an eye (roast is fast).
Test one before turning off the oven.
Do not open the oven while baking.

Place the forms or molds for baking in a large pan ..
The bread dough is heavy.
To recap:
"Dump the forms less than half, grows too."

Allow to cool in the furnace. After leaving cold inside a big way until the next day, covered with a napkin.

The next day to pack tightly closed and sealed cellophane.
curiosity:
Large loaves store in tightly closed cans in a cool dry place.
*** If the temperature (weather) is cold, the durability is up to a year inside the can without opening ***.

DECOR:
You can place each miniature "Christmas bread" on the Christmas table or separate table, to distribute to guests.
Make a thumbnail for each guest to take home.
If you want you can put christmas card with the guest's name.
Wrap with cellophane. Tie a red, green or pink ribbon and two branches of 10cm wheat. Put the Christmas card with the guest's name.
Garnish with two small balls and a golden one red, or the color of your choice.
* It is very slim and stylish. *
Can do in advance of two days.