Fruit Bread of Nonna Maria Luia Gurian - Italian

Fruit Bread of Nonna Maria Luia Gurian - Italian

ingredients:

1 pound of whole wheat flour
6-8 eggs, egg whites until stiff, put last.
200 g. not cold butter does not serve margarine.
2 cups (tea) brown sugar
2 cups (tea) of honey, does not serve other type of honey.

Other Ingredients:

1/2 liter of raw milk (curdle) with juice of 2 lemons, Book. 2 tablespoons (soup) of chemical baking powder. 2 tablespoons (soup) of cocoa liquor or rum or kirche (brandy cherries)
2 tablespoons powdered milk, 1 pinch of salt.

spices:

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

filling:

150 grams. of washed dried fruit and chopped into cubes.
300 grams. walnut half ground and half chopped coarsely.
200 g. of various fruits, turkish figs, apricots, prunes
yellow raisins, and dark raisins without seeds dates.
All chopped and pressed fruit wheat flour. Book.

Note:
  I- Option:

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

II - Option nuts with raisins.
Option III; nuts, raisins and plums.

How to Prepare:

Beat in mixer brown sugar with the butter, add the egg yolks, make the hit, then put the honey, curd and if you need use the whey, can be all sour is so. Book.

In separate, place in a large bowl and wheat flour, salt, powdered milk, baking powder, and spices, make a hole in the center, adding the mass of an electric mixer, gradually and slowly, mix well until finish the whole lump.

Then add the chopped fruit and floured. Finally the egg whites, mixing until a homogeneous mass.

Grease the 4 forms with margarine, put parchment paper and re-greasing.
The shapes are large 20 X10 cm pound cake.

Or 8 small forms of pound cake, or 16 individual round miniatures suitable for gifts.

Preheated by l60 ° C oven for about 60 to 90 minutes.
Do not open the oven while baking.

Put forms to bake in a baking dish.
The bread dough is quite heavy.

Put in less than half forms, grows too.

Allow to cool in the furnace.

When cold, remove from oven, place it on a bench leaving it the way until the next day, covered with a napkin.

The next day pack tightly closed with cellophane and sealed. Store in tightly closed cans in a dry and airy
If the weather is cold, durability is up to one year in the can without opening.

Note:

"Here at home does not last one day," it creates owner. "
To Party, Make one for each guest.
coverage:
Icing sugar with lemon juice or orange.
The syrup is almost liquid but full-bodied.
Wrap with colored cellophane. Tie a pink ribbon, red, or green and a wheat field 10 inches, put a card thanking presence.

You could place each thumbnail bread on the table or in a separate table, to hand out to guests.
Nonna Fruit bread
(4 large unit, or 8 medium and 16 small)