VOLUME 1 - Kilimanjaro Foods

Fruechte Brot
20 Servings
2 2/3 oz pears,dried
3 1/2 oz apricots
3 1/2 oz plums,dried, pitted
2 2/3 oz oranges,dried, cubed
3 1/2 oz dates,dried
6 oz walnutmeat
1 1/16 oz yeast
3 1/2 oz sugar
2 T butter
2 3/16 lb flour
1 t salt
3 1/2 oz raisins
1/2 t orangepeel,grated
1 t cinnamon
2 T cherry liquor(kirschwasser)
1/2 t cloves,Ground
1/2 t ingwer powder
1 t kardamom powder
1/2 c water,Warm
1 powdered sugar
Cube the pears, apricots, oranges and figs. Chop the walnuts. Break
up the yeast and mix with one teaspoon sugar and the lukewarm
water
and cover it and let stand on a warm place for 10 minutes. Melt the
butter and mix with salt and flour; add the yeastmix and knead,
cover and let it rise on a warm place until doubled in size. Mix raisins,
sugar, grated lemonpeel, cinnamon, cloves, ingwer, cardamom and
the
dried fruits and the nuts; knead them into dough. Form a loaf and put
onto a waxpaper covered cookiesheet.
Preheat oven to 200 C and bake for 75 minutes. When cool sprinkle
with a little powdered sugar.