Finnish Corn Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pt. milk
1/4 c. sugar
2 Tbsp. cardamon seed, ground
1 cake yeast
1/4 lb. butter
3 well beaten eggs
7 to 8 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt

Preparation

Scald the milk and mix in the sugar, butter, salt and cardamon seed.
Melt the yeast in 1 cup lukewarm water and pour into milk mixture.
Add beaten eggs.
Add flour while stirring mixture. Knead dough until it no longer sticks to hands and let it rise until double in bulk.
Divide dough into 3 parts and knead into long rolls.
Braid the rolls and fold each end under to make it secure.
Place in greased pans and let rise until double again. Bake at 350\u00b0 for 45 minutes.
When taking the bread out of oven, brush 2 tablespoons coffee and 3 tablespoons sugar over warm bread. It may also be frosted.