LISA CRAWLEY/TEASPOON------------------- 1 1/2 c Bread Flour 1 c Whole Wheat Flour 1/2 c Oat-blend Flour 3 tb Date Sugar 1 tb Dry Milk 1 1/2 ts Sea Salt 6 Threads Saffron 1 1/4 c Water -- warmed 2 tb Canola, Sunflower or Safflower Oil 4 ts Active Dry Yeast 2/3 c Currants Add ingred. to machine per your instructions except the currants. Add the currants at the "beep". Program for WHOLE WHEAT mode. In my ABM100, I used the WHITE brEAD cycle. Source: The Bread Machine Gourmet.
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Swedish Saffron Buns | Lussebullar | Lussekatter | Santa Lucia Buns
Swedish saffron buns that are eaten on December 13th, the feast of Saint Lucy.
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Recipe: Lussebullar - Swedish saffron buns
It isn’t a proper Christmas without saffron buns or, as we say in Sweden, ’saffransbullar’ or 'lussebullar'.
Enjoy some Swedish saffron buns filled with vanilla custard to get you in the season’s spirit!
Inspired by a Zeina Mourtadas recipe.
Ingredients: (10 saffron buns) The dough: 200 ml milk 2bags (1g) saffron 25g fresh yeast 1/4 tsp salt 200 g sugar 125 g quark (Not cottage cheese, as the video says). 150 g butter (at room temperature). 700-800g plain flour
Filling: Vanilla Custard
Glaze: 1 egg About 7g butter Granulated Sugar
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A Baker's Odyssey: Saffron Bread Recipe
Saffranbrod is traditionally shaped into a large loaf, individual S-shaped scrolls, or more intricate patterns. Learn to make & shape the dough.
By baking with immigrants in their home kitchens, James Beard award-winning cookbook author Greg Patent recreates their recipes for future generations in A Baker's Odyssey. This video is the Saffron Bread Recipe included on the DVD that comes with Greg's book.
Saffron Swirls, Swedish Christmas Recipe! Variation on Classic Saffron Buns
This is a variation on classic Swedish Saffron Buns. We add a mixture of almond paste as a filling! I make this almost every year for Christmas and the saffron smell from these in your home will get you into the Christmas mood immediately :)
Recipe Dough 200 g (1 3/4 sticks) butter 1 g (1 1/2 tsp) saffron 5 dl (2 cups) milk 1/2 dl (1/5 cup) cream 50 g (2 oz) fresh yeast 2 eggs 2,5 dl (2 cups) granulated sugar 1 pinch of salt 16–17 dl (7 cups) bread flour
Filling 200 g (7 oz) almond paste 200 g (1 3/4 sticks) butter 1 dl (2/5 cups) raw sugar 1 tbsp cinnamon
For brushing 1 egg 1 tbsp milk Raw sugar on top of each bun
13-15 minutes in the oven at 200°C (392°F)
Recipe credit: Leila Lindholm (rum essence is excluded in my video)
SAFFRANSBULLAR | Swedish Saffron Buns | 12 Days of Christmas 2023 pt.1
Nothing says Christmas in Sweden more than saffron! These are essentially cardamom buns but instead of cardamom dough and cardamom butter filling these use saffron dough and vanilla butter filling. They are like the sweeter and butterier sister of lussekatter.
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Swedish Saffron Buns (Lussekatter)
It's the season for Swedish Saffron Buns! Also known as St. Lucia Buns or ‘Lussekatter’, these sweet buns are great for snack, dessert or breakfast. Try making them at home!