Danish-French Bread (Franskbrod)
"This is my own creation of a Danish French bread called Franskbrod. I missed it so much here in Canada, that I got down to business and experimented enough to have it down right... Enjoy with homemade peach jam, or some Danish Havarti. Velbekomme!"
photo by Bonnie G #2
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
2
ingredients
- 7 - 7 1⁄2 cups unbleached flour
- 2 packages active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- yellow cornmeal
- 1 egg white
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds (optional)
directions
- In large mixer bowl combine 3 cups of the flour and the yeast.
- Heat 2 1/2 cups water, sugar, salt and shortening just till warm 115-120 degrees F.
- Stirring constantly to melt shortening.
- Add to dry mixture.
- Beat at low speed with mixer for 1/2 minute, scraping bowl.
- Beat 3 minutes at high speed.
- By hand, stir in enough remaining flour to make a soft dough.
- Knead on floured surface till smooth (10 to 12 minutes.) Shape into a ball.
- Place in greased bowl and turn once.
- Cover, let rise till double 1-1 1/2 hours.
- Punch down, divide in half.
- Cover let rest 10 minutes.
- Roll each half to 15 x 12" rectangle.
- Roll up tightly from long side, seal well.
- Taper ends.
- Place each diagonally seam side down, on greased baking sheet sprinkled with cornmeal.
- Gash tops diagonally every 2 1/2 inches 1/8 inch deep.
- Beat egg white just till foamy add 1 tbsp. water
- Brush tops and sides of loaves, and sprinkle with poppyseeds.
- Cover, let rise till double (about 1 hr.) Bake at 375 degrees F.
- till light brown for 20 minutes, brush again with egg white mixture.
- Bake another 20 minutes longer.
- Remove from sheets and cool.
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Reviews
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Wonderful! Great taste and beautiful presentation! -
An excellent bread recipe! after rolling the dough out I sprinkled it with the poppy seeds, and cut it up cinnamon roll style, for some very pretty rolls! they only took 20 minutes in the oven .. thanks -
I'm very pleased with the way this recipe came out. I did not make 2 loaves because my oven is small. Rather, I made one fairly large round loaf (800 g), 8 finger rolls of about 55 g each, and one longer loaf (445 g). The dough rose beautifully in the oven to make lovely breads. They are soft and fine-grained inside, and taste wonderful. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Scandigirl
Canada
<p>I'm Danish-Canadian! I immigrated to Canada in 1968 and lived in B.C. until 1979, then we had the wonderful opportunity to live in Hawaii for almost 3 years. We moved to Southern Ontario in 1982. Of profession, I'm a Doctor of Human Biochemistry, specializing in Nutrition, a Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine, and a Registered Nutrition Consultant Practitioner, I have my own full time practice. <br />My passion is cooking! I have tested and tried over 10.000 recipes over the last 30 years on my beloved husband who is now residing in a Long Term Facility with Dementia, so I have to make meals for one, healthy and simple. />My pet peeve is too much garlic in a creamy rich sauce. <br />My favourite cookbook is the one I have made myself over the past 40 years. <br />My interests are knitting Scandinavian socks, sweaters, reading. If I had a month off I would visit our adult children and 4 year old Granddaughter, who resides in British Columbia and Florida, and cook them their favorite meals.</p>
