Finland Pulla (Bulla)

Preparation steps

• Dried cranberries (if you don't have them, you can also pour raisins with hot water and leave them to swell for about twenty minutes, drain the water and set them aside. Put the yeast in warm water, add sugar, mix and set aside for the yeast to rise.
• Sift flour, add with, sugar, ground cardamom and finally add cold butter cut into cubes. Rub the butter into the flour and combine into a mass that should eventually look crumbly. Add warm milk, lightly beaten egg and yeast and mix with a food processor to get a soft dough. Flour the work surface well, pour out the soft dough and start kneading and kneading it until you get a smooth and elastic dough. Add a little flour only until you get a dough that does not stick to the work surface. Spread the dough into a rectangle and sprinkle with softened cranberries or raisins, wrap in a roll and then slowly knead the roll again and add a little flour until all the cranberries are evenly distributed on the dough, if it falls out while kneading just push it back into the dough. Finally, the dough should be elastic and a little sticky.
• Coat the vanilla with cold butter and put the kneaded dough, which you have shaped into a ball. Cover with transparent foil or kitchen cloth, leave in a warm place to double the dough. Depending on how warm your room is, it will take an hour to two hours for the dough to rise.
• Pour the risen dough on a floured work surface and divide it in half and divide each half into 3 parts and divide each part into a thin roll and weave those three rolls into a braid. Place the baking paper on the baking tray and transfer the braided braid, if desired, you can put the braided braid in a longer and narrower tray, cover with transparent foil and set aside. Do the same with the other part of the test. If you put both braids on 1 tray, be sure to leave a gap of about ten cm between the braids. I have my pulle rules in 2 trays. Allow the dough to rise again. When it has risen, coat it with beaten egg yolk, which you whipped with a few drops of milk, sprinkle with almonds in slices and bake in a preheated oven at 175 ° C for about 40 to 50 minutes or until nicely browned.
• Cool on a wire rack, cut into pieces, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with coffee or tea. In our country, one pulla was eaten and the other was in the freezer and given to the children to have for breakfast.
• Pleasant !!!!!