Julekake - Christmas Bread

Total Time: 10 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 lb butter
• 7 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 2 packages dried yeast (i use fleishmann's)
• 3/4 cup raisins
• 3/4 cup chopped citron

Recipe

• 1 heat milk with sugar and butter.
• 2 let milk mixture cool.
• 3 mix together flour and cardamom and dried yeast.
• 4 add flour mixture to milk mixture.
• 5 mix well.
• 6 cover dough with a clean cloth, let stand in a warm place overnight.
• 7 in the morning, work raisins and chopped citron into the dough.
• 8 form into loaves.
• 9 let rise until doubled in bulk.
• 10 bake at 350*.
• 11 45 minutes or until done.