Swedish Coffee Bread Recipe, Swedish Tea Ring Recipe | Simply Recipes http://www.simplyrecipes.com A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments. Sat, 18 May 2013 00:02:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Simply RecipesSwedish Coffee Bread Recipe, Swedish Tea Ring Recipe | Simply Recipes http://www.simplyrecipes.com http://www.simplyrecipes.com/wp-content/themes/simply/i/logo.png?v=2 301 47 A family cooking and food blog with hundreds of healthy, whole-food recipes for the home cook. Photographs, easy-to-follow instructions, and reader comments. Swedish Coffee Bread http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/swedish_coffee_bread/ http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/swedish_coffee_bread/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:32:33 +0000 Elise http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/swedish_coffee_bread Swedish Coffee Bread (photo)

A Simply Recipes reader recently informed me that Swedish coffee bread is a Christmas tradition in Sweden, along with Swedish meatballs and other goodies served on Christmas Eve. According to Sara Sabo, “it is a lot of work but the Swedish tomte that lives under the floorboards helps, and you better do your part or the Jul goat will butt you. This is the day all distant relatives and many friends decide they want to be Swedish.” With that kind of intro, wouldn’t you be intrigued? Sara sent me her 40 year old recipe for making this cardamom spiced yeast bread and I’ve now made three batches (with some recipe tweaking on my part). By the way, it’s called “coffee bread” because like coffee cake it is served with coffee; there’s no actual coffee in it.

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A Simply Recipes reader recently informed me that Swedish coffee bread is a Christmas tradition in Sweden, along with Swedish meatballs and other goodies served on Christmas Eve. According to Sara Sabo, “it is a lot of work but the Swedish tomte that lives under the floorboards helps, and you better do your part or the Jul goat will butt you. This is the day all distant relatives and many friends decide they want to be Swedish.” With that kind of intro, wouldn’t you be intrigued? Sara sent me her 40 year old recipe for making this cardamom spiced yeast bread and I’ve now made three batches (with some recipe tweaking on my part). By the way, it’s called “coffee bread” because like coffee cake it is served with coffee; there’s no actual coffee in it.

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