Nisu - Finnish Coffee Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. Milk
1/4 c lb. Butter or Margarine
2 c. Sugar
Dash of Salt
10 Cardamon Seeds, peeled and pounded to pieces
2 pkgs. Yeast
1/2 c. Lukewarm Water
3 Eggs
8 c. Flour

Preparation

Warm the milk and butter to melting.
Add sugar, salt and cardamon.
Combine the yeast and lukewarm water.
Beat eggs and add, with the yeast mix, to the COOLED milk.
Gradually add flour and mix to a stiff dough.
Let rise until doubled.
Put on a floured board.
Cut into 4 chunks and then cut each chunk into 3 pieces.
Roll each piece and make a braid of the 3 long pieces. Let rise in greased pans for 1 hour.
Makes 4 loaves.