Christmas Fruit Bread-Traditional Newfoundland
  • Yield: 3 loafs
  • Prep Time: 20 min to make, 2 x 30 to rise dough. minutes
  • Cook Time: 35 minutes
  • Serving:
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Christmas Fruit Bread-Traditional Newfoundland

By November 26, 2017

Christmas Fruit Bread
Delicious Christmas Fruit Bread made with mixed dried fruit and braided into a wreath.

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If you are looking for a delicious recipe for a Christmas Fruit Bread look no further.

I have a recipe here that is so good you will be making enough bread to freeze for all year around. When I think of dried fruit, I think fruit cake and hot cross buns, but having more recipes that you can make with dried fruit is lovely.

Christmas Fruit Bread
Sweet dough loaded with sweet mixed dried fruits
Braiding my christmas fruit dough to make a delicious wreath.

I love braiding and braiding dough is no different it is so lovely, and when this dough is baked the bread is festive and ever so delicious.

Loafs of delicious Christmas Fruit Bread.

How delicious is this Christmas Fruit Bread, and the inside is so beautiful. This recipe and method is super easy to make, just give it a try you will love it.

Bread Buns made from the leftover dough from our christmas fruit bread dough.

When I have left over dough I love to make extra things with it like, bread buns and touton.

Traditional Newfoundland Homemade Bread
White Bread buns.
Toutons and Frozies
Fried toutons/bankers

Traditional Newfoundland Toutons and Frozies

I'm going to share a link to my cookbooks link, one got a few recipes of our Traditional Newfoundland Meals, bread, cakes, dessert. The other got over 50 baking recipes for all occasions.

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Our cookbooks, Traditional Newfoundland Cooking and Recipes and A Little Taste of Home.
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Blueberry Pudding, this steamed blueberry pudding is another delicious recipe in my cookbook.

Please continue on with the recipe in question, Traditional Newfoundland Christmas Fruit Bread. Enjoy

 

Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a measuring cup add 1 cup warm water and 2 tbsp of yeast, 1 tbsp sugar stir together and set aside to rise for 5 minutes.
  • In a large bowl add 7 cups of sifted flour, 3/4 cup of sugar or less, 1/2 tsp sea salt and 2 cups of dried mixed fruit and peels, mix together until all blended, then make a whole in the middle of mixture.
  • In a medium glass bowl add 1/2 cup melted butter, 2 cups warm milk, 2 beaten eggs, 1 tbsp vanilla, mix together until all combined, making sure you don’t cook the eggs then pour in the middle of the flour mixture.
  • Then add the risen yeast in the middle of the flour and start mixing with a wooden spoon, mix the liquid and flour all around until everything starts to come together, using the 1 cup flour to work the dough together.
  • After it starts to get hard to move with the wooden spoon around in the bowl discard spoon and work the dough with your hand leaving one hand on the bowl and one for the dough, pulling the dough towards you and pushing it down into the bowl adding extra flour as needed. Use kitchen aid if needed.
  • When dough becomes a round ball flip it over, make the sign of a cross on top dough, then cut the dough with a knife, cover with a lid or a sheet of parchment paper and a towel, put on the counter in the sun or warm place in your kitchen.
  • Let rise until the dough is half the size or around 30 minutes, then knead it down with your hand and rolling the bowl around to equally form the dough into a ball again. Cover put in a warm place again for another 30 minutes.
  • Prepare 3 small bread pans or two bread pans and one bunt pan with a hole in the middle to make a christmas wreath with the dough, grease your pans first.
  • Cut small pieces of dough off rolling it out wards and in under until you form a ball, place in the pan. continue doing this until you have pans full with three round dough balls each.
  • If you would like to make a wreath you will need three pieces of dough, then sprinkle flour over the counter, roll with your hands on the counter top the dough to make three long pieces of dough strings. 
  • Place the three of them down and pinch the top then make a braid out of the dough by folding each piece over the other until you are at the end.
  • Cover the dough and let rise until its half the size or at less more then you started with, let rise for 30 to 40 minutes, when risen pre-heat oven to 350ºf bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown depending on your oven.
  • When baked place on a cooling rack, glaze with butter over top and place a piece of parchment paper over with a towel to soften bread and to cool it down.

BAKING TIPS:

  • Please Note: Anytime you are working with dough you may need to add more flour or water to have that dough elasticity texture, don’t be afraid to work the dough by kneading it a few extra times for about 10 to 15 minutes.
  • Using the oven with the LIGHT ON only is a good warm place to rise your dough, set the timer.
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Christmas Fruit Bread
Christmas Fruit Bread – Traditional Newfoundland, This delicious bread is made with sweet mixed dried fruit and braided into a wreath, topped with powdered sugar, fresh mint and cherries, to make this delicious festive bread.

I love making bread anytime of the year, but making sweet breads always get me excited for christmas season. It don’t matter if its fruit bread or sweet molasses raisin bread, it always remind me of christmas. I will share with you a link to my Sweet Molasses Raisin Bread for you to make, this recipe is so delicious. Traditional Newfoundland Sweet Molasses Raisin Bread 

Traditional Newfoundland Sweet Molasses Raisin Bread
Traditional Newfoundland Sweet Molasses Raisin Bread.

I have another delicious recipe for homemade white bread I can share with you as well, this recipe is one I make every week and my Mom loves to get a bun of the dough to make toutons.

Traditional Newfoundland Homemade White Bread

Homemade bread
Freshly baked white bread, with a lightly coat of butter melting over the top.

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