Grandmother’s Festival Loaf

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      3 hr

Appears in
The French Kitchen: A Cookbook

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

  • About

This is a lovely loaf, half bread, half cake, traditionally from the Auvergne region, hence its name: Fouace Aveyronnaise.

Ingredients

  • 120 ml milk
  • 7 g yeast and a pinch

Method

Barely warm the milk, just to remove the chill, then sprinkle in the yeast and sugar and leave to sit for a few minutes.

Place the flour, butter, orange flower water or rum, sugar, eggs and yeast-and-milk mixture in a large bowl and mix well. Add the crystallized fruit and then turn the dough out on to a lightly floured surface. Knead for 8 minutes.

Return the dough to the bowl,