Pain d'Epices, French Spice Bread
Recipe adapted from Saveur Magazine '98
Equipment
- 7' round cake pan
Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached organic flour
- 2 cups organic rye flour
- ¼ cup dried sweetened oranges, chopped
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 2 tsp caraway seeds
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 egg yolks, beaten
- 1 cup organic honey
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup milk or half and half
- ½ tbsp softened butter to grease cake pan
- 1-2 tbsp organic honey to brush on top of baked bread (optional)
Instructions
- In a small sauce pan, combine honey, sugar and milk (or half and half ) and simmer over low heat. Whisk the mixture well then take off heat and set it aside.
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large mixing bowl, combine and sift together flour, baking soda and spices (nutmeg, coriander, cinnamon, cloves, caraway seeds) then stir in dried oranges. Take ¼ cup of honey/milk mixture into beaten egg yolks and whisk together. Combine the honey/milk/egg yolk mixture into the rest of honey/milk mixture. Pour the liquid gradually into the dry ingredients and mix together the ingredients with a wooden spoon until smooth batter forms.
- Butter and lightly flour the round cake pan and pour batter into pan and bake for 1 hour. Take bread out of oven, unmold from cake pan and cool on wire cake rack. Brush honey on top of bread for additional sweetness and glaze.