Saffron bread
Saffron bread

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, saffron bread. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

The aroma of this bread is beautiful. It is a traditional Cornish recipe for a bread/buns baked at Christmas. Cornwall used to grow masses of Crocus for the stamens that are saffron. The more saffron you use the brighter the colour; howevere saffron - real saffron not the ghastly powdered food colouring called saffron yellow is EXPENSIVE!

Saffron bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Saffron bread is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook saffron bread using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Saffron bread:
  1. Take 255 g strong white flour
  2. Prepare 1 (7 g) sachet fast acting yeast
  3. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
  4. Prepare 25 g golden sugar
  5. Make ready 2 pinches saffron threads
  6. Take 3 tbs clotted cream
  7. Get For the filling
  8. Take 25 g butter (softened)
  9. Get 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  10. Make ready 50 g fruit (sultanas/raisins)

Saffron breads are a tradition in southwestern England and throughout many Nordic countries, especially Sweden and Finland. Serve toasted or plain with honey for a special holiday breakfast or brunch. Remove from heat and stir to dissolve the sugar. To make the dough, simply add plain flour and a pinch of salt and pepper into the bowl.

Steps to make Saffron bread:
  1. Grease a large loaf tin or 2 normal size tins.
  2. Heat the milk until just simmering. Add the saffron strands and allow to soak for 10 to 15.
  3. Add the clotted cream to the infused milk and saffron. Allow to simmer for a few minutes.
  4. Mix the flour, salt, yeast and sugar in a bowl.
  5. Create a well in the centre and then add the milk, cream and saffron mix. Mix well until you have a soft dough.
  6. Turn out onto a floured surface an knead for 5 - 10 minutes. Add the sugar and fruits as you go.
  7. Pop into a bowl and either cover with cling film and keep in a warm place, or put a prover until doubled in size. Approximately 40 minutes but could be longer.
  8. Once double in size, “knock back” the dough in the bowl and turn out an knead again for a further 5 minutes.
  9. Split the dough into three portions and roll each into a long sausage. Braid the dough sausages and place in the greased pan(s). Cover with film, or place in a prover, and allow to stand until again double in size. (I cheated I used cake liners rather than grease the tins). Again about 40 minutes.
  10. Heat the oven to 180c/gas 4. Cook for 25 min until golden. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. (While hot you can brush with honey if you really want sweet bread)
  11. Whether you then serve immediately or allow it to cool. Cut into thick slices and serve with butter or even better clotted cream.
  12. Enjoy.

Remove from heat and stir to dissolve the sugar. To make the dough, simply add plain flour and a pinch of salt and pepper into the bowl. Then, pour a dash of olive oil. Then, bring all the dough together. Saffron used to be grown there, so it makes sense that they would have recipes using this expensive spice.

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