Kouglof Bread
1.
The raisins need to be softened in advance with rum, and then drained and set aside.
Then mix all the ingredients except the raisins and butter. Yeast needs to dig a small hole in the flour to bury it to avoid contact with sugar and salt in advance to kill its activity.
Then start to knead the dough until it becomes a smooth dough, put in small pieces of butter, and knead until it can pull out a large piece of film.
2.
Then add the raisins that have been soaked in the wine. The traditional guggulhof is to add a lemon shavings. I don't have it on hand, so I ignored this step.
After kneading the dough with raisins, cover it with plastic wrap and put it in a warm place for basic fermentation.
Sent to twice the original size.
3.
Spread a layer of butter on the cuckoo hoff mold to prevent sticking, and then put in the almond slices.
After that, take out the fermented dough and press to exhaust, then dig a hole in the middle and put it into the mold.
Put it again in a warm and humid place for secondary fermentation,
It’s fine to post it until it’s nine minutes full. Mine is over.
4.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, and then bake the upper and lower levels for 30 minutes.
5.
This is how it looks when it's halfway through the final baking. Immediately after the baking is out of the oven, buckle upside down on the drying rack, and demould as soon as possible, or the moisture will not escape and the bread will become damp.
After that, sift a layer of powdered sugar on the surface for decoration and eat it.
Tips:
Two words
1. Cuckoohof is a high-sugar, high-oil and high-liquid dessert, so the dough will be a little sticky when kneading, especially after adding butter, it will be softer than ordinary dough and stick to the inner wall. Stopped a few times in the middle, scraped the inner wall and knead again, but in the end the dough will become smooth.
2. If you knead the dough by hand, it will feel crazy, so it is best to use a cook machine or bread machine to knead it. Or you will collapse.
3. I rarely use this mold. If you don't have one, you don't need to buy it. Replace it with a six inch chiffon.
