Stollen's recipe for Christmas bread

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  1.Soak raisins and cranberries in wine for 2 to 3 days in advance.

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  2. Put all the bread ingredients except butter into the bread machine (liquid first, then (the order of flour), dig a hole in the middle of the flour, pour the yeast powder, and start the dough mixing process.

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  3. Knead for about 15 minutes.After the dough is formed, add butter and continue kneading.

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  4. Continue kneading for about 20 minutes.The surface of the dough is smooth and malleable.Add Wine-soaked raisins and cranberries, along with chopped almonds and dried apricots, are all kneaded into the dough.(Wine-stained dried fruits should be dried with kitchen paper)

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  5.By hand Arrange the dough and place it in the bread machine barrel to ferment directly.

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  6. Let the dough double in size, dip your fingers in flour and poke holes so that it does not collapse or collapse.Just bounce back.

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  7. Take out the dough and deflate it, then divide it into two equal parts and roll them into balls.Let rest for 15 minutes, remember to cover with plastic wrap.

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  8.Take a portion of the relaxed dough and roll it into an oval.Roll it out flat at 1/3, and use a rolling pin to make a groove in the middle at 2/3.

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  9. Fold the flattened part to the top and press it down with a rolling pin.

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  10.Put the shaped dough into the baking pan.

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  11.Put it in the oven for secondary fermentation, turn on the oven fermentation function, and set the fermentation temperature Set to 35 degrees and remember to put a bowl of warm water on the bottom of the oven to increase humidity.

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  12. Take out the bread when it has doubled in size.

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  13.Put the preheated oven into the middle layer again and heat it up and down to 180 degrees for about 20 minutes..

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  14. Take out the baked bread and brush the surface with butter while it is hot..

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  15. Let cool and then sift a layer of icing sugar.

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  16. The Christmas bread Stollen is finished.

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  17.It is said that the prepared Stollen bread is sealed and stored in a crisper., it will taste better when cut into pieces and eaten after 3 days!

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  18.After I finished it, I couldn’t wait to cut it and eat it!

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  19.The snow-like frosting is wrapped in rich fruity, winey and The buttery aroma refreshed my taste buds again!