Deluxe saffron cake

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Preparation Time:

20 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Moderate

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Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 pn Saffron
2 tb Hot water
1 tb Yeast
1 ts Sugar
5 oz Warm water
1 lb Wholewheat flour
1 pn Salt
1/4 ts Nutmeg
3 oz Margarine
2 oz Shortening
8 oz Currants
1 oz Candied peel
5 oz Soymilk

Mix together the saffron 2 tb hot water. Place in a covered jar
let stand overnight. Strain, reserving the water.

Dissolve the yeast in warm water with the sugar. Leave to start
working. Put flour salt in a bowl. Add nutmeg. Rub in the margarine
shortening. Toss in the currants peel. Add the saffron water to
the yeast mixture. Pour it into the flour. Add the milk. Mix till
you have a dough.

Knead the dough in the bowl. Cover leave in a warm place for 1
hour or until the dough has doubled in size.

Heat oven to 350F. Knead the dough again. Divide it into two put
each half into a 1 lb loaf tin, greased. Cover, leave in a warm
place for 10 minutes. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on wire racks.

Gail Duff, "A Book of Herbs Spices"