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Silesian Stollen

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg Flour
• 0.5 l Milk (lukewarm)
• 7 pcs Egg yolks
• 70 g Yeast
• Salt (a little)
• 0.5 l Butter (clarified)
• 250 g Raisins (pitted)
• 200 g Sugar
• 125 g Almonds (coarsely crushed)
• 30 g Yeast (additional)
• Lemon zest (grated) (a little)

Instructions

1. Prepare a dough from flour, lukewarm milk, egg yolks, yeast, and a little salt, and let it rise in a warm place.
2. Then incorporate the clarified butter, raisins, sugar, coarsely crushed almonds, additional yeast, and grated lemon zest, and let the dough rise again.
3. Form into a long loaf, make two jagged cuts lengthwise, brush generously with melted butter, and bake at the first heat setting for three-quarters of an hour.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.