Portuguese Honey Bread

Name: Portuguese Honey Bread
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 teaspoons active dry yeast (from two 1/4-oz packages); 1 teaspoon baking soda; 177 milliliters chopped mixed fine-quality candied fruit such as pear, citron, and candied orange peel (not a supermarket brand; 1/4 lb); 177 milliliters dried cranberries or dried sour cherries; 3 larges eggs; 1 liters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 teaspoons ground ginger; 118 milliliters mild honey; 177 milliliters molasses (not blackstrap); 59 milliliters Port; 1 teaspoon salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 296 milliliters 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for buttering pans; 120 grams 1/4 cups walnuts; 59 milliliters warm water (105–115°F)

Portuguese Honey Bread

Portuguese Honey Bread might be just the bread you are searching for. This vegetarian recipe serves 6. One serving contains 1312 calories, 19g of protein, and 55g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 5 hours. If you have warm water, flour, ground cinnamon, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F. Butter loaf pans.

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Butter

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Oven

Bring cranberries, candied fruit, and Port to a simmer in a small saucepan.

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Candied Fruit

Cranberries

Port

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Sauce Pan

Remove from heat and set aside, covered.

Pulse walnuts in a food processor until just coarsely chopped.

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Walnuts

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Food Processor

Add flour, salt, baking soda, and spices and pulse to combine.

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Baking Soda

Spices

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Beat together butter (2 1/2 sticks) and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes in a stand mixer or 6 with a handheld.

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Butter

Sugar

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Bowl

Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

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Egg

Stir together yeast and warm water in a small bowl and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.)

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Water

Yeast

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Bowl

Add one third of flour mixture to butter mixture and mix at low speed until combined, then add molasses and mix until incorporated.

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Molasses

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Add half of remaining flour mixture and mix until combined, then add honey and mix until incorporated.

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All Purpose Flour

Honey

Add yeast mixture and remaining flour mixture and mix until combined, then stir in candied-fruit mixture.

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All Purpose Flour

Fruit

Yeast

Divide batter among pans, smoothing tops. (Do not let batter rise.)

Bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in centers of loaves comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool in pans on a rack 10 minutes, then remove loaves from pans and cool completely on rack.

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