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What to put in it:
500 g/1,1 lb rye flour, sieved
500 g/1,1 lb flour
1 ts of ground pepper
0.5 ts of ground clove
1 ts of ground coriander
1 ts ground aniseed
3 dl/0,6 pt milk
1 dl/0,2 pt golden syrup, Lyle’s or similar
50 g/1,75 oz yeast
2 dl of raisins
1 bottle of wort beer (0,33 l/0,7 pt)
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How to do it:
Mix the rye flour with half of the flour. Add the ground spices. Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm milk mixed with golden syrup. Add wort beer and stir the lukewarm liquid into the flour mixture.
Knead the dough well and add more flour until the dough releases the side of the bowl. Cover with plastic and let the dough raise in a warm place to double in size. This takes about 1 hour.
Divide the dough into two large or three smaller dough pieces. Knead and shape into round loaves. Place the loaves on the baking sheet with baking paper and let rise for about 30 minutes. Bake the bread at the bottom of the oven at 200 C/390 F for about 40 minutes. If you want shiny cakes you can brush them with water or eggwash.
The recipes for Norwegian Wort Cake and Delfia Cake are taken (mostly) from the blog:
recipereminiscing.wordpress.com
If anyone tries the recipes, please share a picture on Instagram or Facebook. I would love to hear and see how it worked out.
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Natalie Normann grew up in a shipping town on the west coast of Norway and always wanted to be a writer. Actually, she wanted to smoke cigars and drink whiskey like Hemingway but settled for chocolate and the occasional glass of Baileys.
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Her writing journey started with short stories in women’s magazines until her first book was published in 1995.
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