Coffee bread

Name: Coffee bread (Pulla)
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter, plus extra for greasing; 10 cardamom pods, seeded; 120 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup lukewarm water; 1 packet easy-blend (rapid-rise) dried yeast or 25 g/1 oz fresh yeast; 1 packet easy-blend (rapid-rise) dried yeast or 25 g/1 oz fresh yeast; 1 packet easy-blend (rapid-rise) dried yeast or 25 g/1 oz fresh yeast; 475 ml/16 fl oz/2 cups milk; 200 g/7 oz/1 cup caster (superfine) sugar; 5 ml/1 tsp salt; 4 eggs, beaten; 900 g/2 lb/8 cups plain (all-purpose) flour; beaten egg, to glaze; beaten egg, to glaze; sugar and nibbed almonds, to decorate; sugar and nibbed almonds, to decorate

Pulla

Preparation info

Makes
3
loaves

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Finland

By Anja Hill

Published 2007

About

Pulla is the universal accompaniment to coffee in Finland. It is a sweet bread, with a cardamom-scented flavour, and is traditionally plaited.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter, plus extra for greasing
10

Europe
Finland
Snack
Vegetarian
Nordic

Method

Melt 115 g/4 oz/½ cup of the butter and leave to cool. Crush the cardamom pods wi