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Hi Tav,

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Firstly should the title read A sweet bread for holidays or a sweet bread for 'the' holidays?

Instead ofIts origins are probably in pagan times and the custom of making offerings to the gods on special days.

May I suggestIt probably originates from pagan times with the custom...(?)

A few things confuse me (nowt fresh there ):
After you've mixed all the dry ingredients are they placed in a bowl or just on a work surface/chopping board? Could they be placed in a bowl and the method you describe is the 'traditional' way of doing it?

Is the grated lemon peel just the zest? and how many lemons?

'some vanilla sugar' how much?

also, how much rum? (a good glug? a teaspoon?)

Would the raisins go in with the dry ingredients or when the dough is nearly formed. Does it make any difference?

Is 'coarse sugar' what we in Britain would call granulated? http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/honey/images/sugar-230-2.jpg


Mags

Hi Mags

I don't know what the difference between 'holidays' and 'the holidays is'.

Your sentence about the pagan origins is better, yes.

You mix them on the work surface, but a bowl works just as well.

Yes, I mean zest. Only one lemon I think.

Uh... must check about the vanilla sugar.

I'd say a glug of rum, yes.

The raisins get into the almost finished dough. But I can't tell you if it makes a difference.

The sugar we have looks like that:
http://www.ratgeber.de/uploads/pics/hagelzucker.jpg
here on a Striezel:
http://www.baecker-schneider.de/static/produkte/brot/butterzopf-hagelzucker.jpg

Hi, Tav,


I've done a bit tweaking on the method and changed the ingredients list as per the previous points.

Have a look, see what you think.

Just need to know the amount of vanilla sugar now.

Mags

I checked, it's about 10 grammes of vanilla sugar.

Added 10g to vanilla sugar and change essence to extract (essence is just nasty and the extract is only a pence more expensive in the UK - 95p as opposed to 92p in me local Coop)

thank you
And I think the Entry is fine, thanks for subbing.