Mosbolletjie Bread

Name: Mosbolletjie Bread
Ingredients: 100 ml water; butter and flour – for greasing; 250 ml lukewarm water; 1.3 kg cake flour; 7.5 ml aniseed; 125 g unsalted butter; 200 g sugar; 1 egg; 250 ml castor sugar; 5 ml salt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mile 8

By David Higgs

Published 2018

About

Prepare the syrup before making the bread so that it is ready for brushing on the bread straight from the oven.

Ingredients

200 g sugar
100 ml water

Vegetarian
Bread

Method

In a pot, combine the sugar and water over medium heat and simmer until a thick sugar syrup forms. Keep warm.

To make the mosbolletjie bread, mix together the flour, aniseed, sugar and salt. Add the egg by rubbing it into the flour. Heat the unsalted butter and water together until the butter has melted. Mix the butter/water mixture and must into the flour mixture with a fork. Knead the