Holiday Sweet Bread | Saveur
This is an adaptation of a Caribbean cook's generations-old family recipe.
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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