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School Bread

Ingredients

School Bread

  • 2 pints water
  • 3 oz dry yeast
  • 3½ oz sugar
  • 3½ oz butter melted
  • 1 tsp cardamom
  • 2 lb flour
  • 1 egg
  • 8 oz shredded coconut
  • 12 oz vanilla custard

Vanilla Custard

  • 1⅔ c milk
  • ¼ c sugar
  • ¼ tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 1 tbsp corn starch

Instructions

Vanilla Custard

  1. In a heavy saucepan bring milk to a boil then set aside.

  2. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla until the mixture doubles by volume. Add milk a few drops at a time.Mix well.

  3. Place in metal mixing bowl over double broiler, dissolve corn starch in a little water. Sir constantly until it thickens – it must not boil. Cool by placing bowl in ice bath.

School Bread

  1. Heat water and butter to 95ºF.

  2. Mix four, sugar, cardamom, yeast, and egg together for five minutes until dough is stiff.

  3. Form the dough into a ball and place in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 45 minutes or until dough has doubled in size.

  4. Roll out the dough and cut into five ounce pieces. Roll each piece into a ball and place them on a non-stick sheet pan and let them sit for 30 minutes.

  5. Bake for 15 minutes in 375ºF oven and let cool.

  6. Mix powdered sugar and water to make icing and place in a shallow pan. Form a hole in the bread using a finger or spoon.

  7. Dip bread in icing with the hole side down and sprinkle with shredded coconut.

  8. Using a pastry bag, squeeze vanilla custard inside of the hole and swirl at the top of the bread for decoration.