Cardamon

[LNorman]

Anyone have a good recipe for cardamon bread. I bought some cardamon powder and want to use it before it starts losing its potency.

[winesonoma]

Anyone have a good recipe for cardamon bread. I bought some cardamon powder and want to use it before it starts losing its potency.

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I seem to recall a Finnish recipe from my youth called Bulla. http://breadnet.net/bulla.html

Edited January 14, 2005 by winesonoma (log)

[chiantiglace]

Cardamon Yeast Dough

2 oz. fresh compressed yeast

1 pint warm whole milk

6 oz. gran. sugar

1 tbsp. salt

2 tbsp. gr. cardamon

4 eggs

2 lbs 10 oz. bread flour

7 oz. unsalted butter

-dissolve yeast in milk

-add sugar, cardamon, and eggs

-add the flour (reserve a handful) and the salt

-add butter

-knead with dough for about 5-7 (or until gluten has become smooth and elastic) minutes adding the reserved flour gradually as needed.

Preshape, shape, proof, bake how desired.

[Swisskaese]

Here are a couple of a Swedish/Danish Recipe:

Blueberry Bread with Cardamon

Cardamon Braid

[takomabaker]

Not bread, but the pear cardamon custard pie in Four Star Desserts is to die for. I made it for both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to rave reviews. BTW, I buy cardamon pods at Penzey's and crush the seeds myself. I think it makes a difference in the flavor and it stays fresh longer.

[SushiCat]

I also buy pods and grind them, in fact I have a grinder similar to a pepper mill dedicated to cardamon ... yup addicted!

One of my all time favorites is to make a sour cream style coffee cake with a layer of apples and cardamon, I slice the apples very thinly and use a castle style bundt pan. I put a few apples mixed with cardamon and sugar into a well greased pan, then the batter (which also has cardamon) and the remaining apples into the pan after the batter. It is a huge hit, people always ask me to make it.

sorry I can't really give you a recipe, it is always a little different but you get the idea.

I hope you enjoy the cardamon and make some nice breads/cakes.