Kryddbrauð

Spice bread

In autumn and winter, when it gets cold and wet and dark and uncomfortable outside, there is hardly anything better than making yourself comfortable in the warm room with a piece of warm spiced bread, nicely spread with good butter, and a hot drink Plus - perfect "huggulegur", as the Icelanders say, really cozy.

Many Icelandic families bake their spiced bread according to a special family recipe that their mother or grandmother baked. Then the memories come back with the smells...


Ingredients

80 g butter
200 g concentrated milk
2 eggs
200 g brown sugar
240 g flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground ginger


Preparation

Melt the butter.

Mix the curdled milk and eggs with the melted butter.

Then add the flour, baking powder and spices.

Then put all the ingredients into a well-greased king cake mold lined with baking paper...

...and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 45 minutes (test with a toothpick!).

Take the spiced bread out of the oven, let it cool a little and then carefully remove it from the tin.

It tastes particularly good while still warm, even with butter or whipped cream on the side. But even cold it is definitely a spicy, autumnal and Christmas treat!

[Translated from here.]