Holiday Sweet Bread | Saveur

Holiday Sweet Bread | Saveur

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This is an adaptation of a Caribbean cook's generations-old family recipe.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups milk
  • 3 (7-gram) packages active dry yeast
  • 12 cups flour
  • 2 tsp. finely grated orange zest
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> tsp. ground mace
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> tsp. ground cloves
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> tsp. ground cardamom
  • 6 cups sugar
  • 8 tbsp. butter, melted
  • 8 tbsp. lard, melted
  • 5 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup raisins
  • <sup>3</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub> cup dried currants
  • 12 pitted prunes, quartered
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub> cup grated candied citron
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub> cup finely ground almonds
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> cup kirsch or other eau-de-vie
  • 2 maraschino cherries, stemmed
  • 12 whole almonds

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