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I’ve wanted to bake bread for a long time and last night I finally got to do it, I looked around for a good recipe, found one. OH WAIT, it was a no knead recipe which apparently means you have to let it sit for 12-18 hours. So after I had bought ingredients for the no knead bread I had to find another recipe I could use my ingredients for and I realized I could do Swedish vanilla buns, and also stumbled across the “Finnish Pulla” recipe.

Starting out: This dough was crazy to make. I made things a bit out of order and it messed me up a little bit. Start with boiling about 2 cups of milk, as soon as brought to a boil take it off the burner and set aside until luke warm (you don’t want the milk to be so hot it kills the yeast) while the milk is cooling down, mix the yeast in finger hot (its a Swedish saying, around 37-45 degrees Celsius) water, about half a cup of water. Crack four eggs into a big bowl (the primary mixing bowl) and add one cup of sugar. Also melt half a cup of butter.

The mix: Mix the eggs and sugar until smooth and yellow. Add the milk. The yeast and about 2 cups of bread flour. Mix until batter is smooth. Add another 3 cups of flour and beat really well. The dough should be really smooth and almost glossy. Add the melted butter, mix it in well and add the rest of the flour. Mix around until once again smooth, glossy and not sticky.

The 1st rise: Put the dough on a floured surface and put the bowl on top of it for about 15 minutes for a small rise. While doing so, slightly grease another bowl.

Kneading: After letting it rise for 15 minutes take off the bowl and start kneading it. Knead it until you feel its done yourself. I kneaded my dough for about 5-10 minutes.

The 2nd rise: Drop down the dough into the lightly greased bowl and put a towel over the bowl and let rise for about one hour. The dough will rise to the double or more ^^

Beat it: After one hour of rising, beat it down again really well and cover up for a third rise.

The making: After risen to almost double again take dough out on floured surface and split into 3. Split each slice into another 3. You should have 9 little balls of dough now. Roll them out to foot long little rolls and braid them. Or you could roll 1/3 out and spread butter, vanilla and cinnamon on it. Slice longways and roll up to little buns. When done with the braids and/or buns put them on (what I prefer) wax paper on a long pan.

The last rise: Let rise for 20 minutes under the towels. When risen, crack an egg and brush the top and sprinkle with some sugar.

Baking it: Put in the middle of the oven on 375-400 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for approximately 25-30 minutes. Make sure you didn’t get any sugar on the wax paper, it will melt and burn the bottom of your bread -_-

Overall this took me about 4 hours and made everyone smile. I wont say that this is as easy as it sounds but its definitely not hard. Takes alot of time and patience though, and cleaning :P

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