If you like the texture of the raisin bread you’ll like the orange sweet bread. It bakes easy, tastes great and stores really well. Perfect with morning coffee or after meal as a desert. I don’t put too much of the orange marmalade so the orange flavor is not overpowering, but that can be easily altered individually. Its good on its own, with a little butter, ice cream or more marmalade for the ultimate sugar fix.
INGREDIENTS:
4 ½ cups - all purpose flour
¾ cup - granulated sugar
4 ½ tsp - dry yeast
1 tsp - salt
½ cup - unsalted butter
2 - eggs
¾ cup - milk
½ cup - water
1 tsp - vanilla extract
¾ cup - orange peel marmalade
EQUIPMENT:
1 large bowl,
1 large wooden spoon,
2 5”x 9” bread baking pans,
1 cotton cloth towel.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix all dry ingredients (including yeast) in a bowl, melt butter,
2. Wisk eggs in a separate bowl, add to the dry mixture; add milk and water, then add the melted butter. Mix all with big wooden spoon until the dough is smooth,
3. Cover the bowl with the cotton cloth towel and place in the warm place for the dough to rise for 1 to 1 ½ hours. It should double the volume.
4. Oil baking pans (5“ x 9“), dust with flour.
5. After the dough rose, spread it on the flat surface dusted with a little flour so the dough wouldn’t stick (clean table surface works great). Shape to about 18” square, spread thin layer of jam on top of the dough, then carefully roll the dough. Cut in half and place both portions in the baking pans.
6. Cover with cotton cloth towel and place in a warm place to raise. The dough should raise almost to the top edge of the pan.
7. Bake in 350F for 25 minutes.
8. Take out of the pan, cool on side, enjoy with tea or coffee.
I always loved the yeast coffee cake my grandmother made. I tried to make it myself, but it always seemed like a chore. Messing with yeast starter, looking for warm place to accommodate raising of the cake… too much trouble. Today, I still love grandma’s yeast coffee cake, but I found an easier way to make it.
INGREDIENTS:
Dough:
4 ½ cups - all purpose flour
¾ cup - granulated sugar
4 ½ tsp - dry yeast
1 tsp - salt
½ cup - unsalted butter
2 - eggs
¾ cup - milk
½ cup - water
1 tsp - vanilla extract
Optional: 8oz - Jam of choice
Crumbs:
½ cup - granulated sugar
½ cup - all purpose flour
¼ cup - unsalted butter
EQUIPMENT:
1 Large bowl,
1 Small bowl,
1 Large wooden spoon,
1 Wisk or fork,
13” x 15” baking pan,
1 Cotton cloth towel.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix all dry ingredients (including yeast) in a bowl, melt butter,
2. Wisk eggs in a separate bowl, add to the dry mixture; add milk and water, then add the melted butter and vanilla. Mix all with big wooden spoon until the dough is smooth,
3. Cover the bowl with the cotton cloth towel and place in the warm place for the dough to rise for 1 to 1 ½ hour. It should double the volume.
4. Prepare the crumbs. Mix flour with sugar, then add melted butter. Mix until crumbs form. The mixture should be somewhat dry and sticky to form clusters.
5. Oil baking sheet (13“ x 15“), dust with flour.
6. After the dough rose spread it in the pan, spread thin layer of jam on top of the dough, then scatter crumbs evenly.
4 ½ tsp - dry yeast 
1 cotton cloth towel.
3. Cover the bowl with the cotton cloth towel and place in the warm place for the dough to rise for 1 to 1 ½ hours. It should double the volume.
6. Cover with cotton cloth towel and place in a warm place to raise. The dough should raise almost to the top edge of the pan. 
