Milan Style Fruit Bread Recipe

1      Reviews by:    Dorothy Shirley   Milan Style Fruit Bread Recipe creates a fruity bread with great taste and texture using yeast, butter, sugar, flour, milk, eggs, egg yolks, raisins and chopped citron. Food Category:    Bread Cuisine Origin:    Midwestern    Servings:16 Nutrition facts:358 calories16.0 grams fat Print Preview Rate This Recipe Prep Time:   5 Hours 15 Minutes Cook Time:   45 Minutes Total Time:   6 Hours

INGREDIENTS

• 2 packages active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup warm water
• 1 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm
• 2 eggs
• 4 egg yolks
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup dark seedless raisins
• 3/4 cup chopped citron
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1 tablespoon water

DIRECTIONS

• Dissolve yeast in the warm water. Pour melted butter into large bowl of electric mixer. Add the sugar and salt gradually, beating constantly. Beating thoroughly after each addition, alternately add the 2 cups flour in thirds and lukewarm milk in halves to the butter mixture. Add yeast and beat well.
• Combine eggs and egg yolks and beat until thick and piled softly. Add the beaten eggs all at one time to yeast mixture and beat well. Beating thoroughly after each addition, gradually add the 3 1/2 cups flour. Stir in raisins and citron.
• Sift half of the remaining 1/2 cup flour over a pastry canvas or board. Turn dough onto floured surface; cover and let rest 10 minutes. Sift remaining flour over dough. Pull dough from edges toward center until flour is worked in. (It will be sticky.) Put dough into a greased deep bowl and grease top of dough. Cover; let rise in a warm place (about 80°F) about 2 1/2 hours. Punch down dough and pull edges of dough in to center. Let rise again about 1 hour.
• Divide dough into halves and shape each into a round loaf. Put each loaf into a well-greased 8-inch layer cake pan. Brush surfaces generously with a mixture of slightly beaten egg and water. Cover; let rise again about 1 hour.
• Bake at 350°F 40 to 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

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