Reindling (Easter bread)
I present to you Reindling — a traditional Easter dish of Austrian cuisine with an unusual name. As an alternative to cognac for soaking the raisins and dates, you can use orange juice or tea. Also, walnuts can be replaced with any other nuts of your choice.
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 1
- Recipe difficulty
- 4 / 5
Ingredients
for 1 serving
- dry yeast 10 g
- milk 250 ml
- sugar 70-120 g
- eggs 2
- butter 100 g
- salt 3 g
- flour 500-550 g
- butter 30 g
- sugar 100 g
- dates 70 g
- raisins 50 g
- walnuts 50 g
- cinnamon 3 g
- cognac 100 ml
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Instructions
Filling Preparation
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Rinse the dates, remove the pits and chop them.
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Combine the chopped dates with previously rinsed raisins.
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Pour cognac over the mixture and leave it for the time it takes to knead the dough.
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Crush the nuts.
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Mix cinnamon with sugar for sprinkling (100 g).
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Mix thoroughly.
Dough Preparation
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Warm the milk until it is lukewarm (it should not be hot).
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Mix the flour with salt and sugar.
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Add the yeast to the mixture.
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Mix the ingredients.
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Pour in warm milk.
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Add eggs.
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Knead the mixture for about 5 minutes.
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Add a small piece of butter.
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Mix.
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Add another small piece of butter.
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Mix.
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Gradually add all the remaining butter, kneading for about 10 minutes.
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Transfer the dough to a bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
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Leave the dough to rise.
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Roll out the dough into a sheet measuring 50×25 cm.
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Grease the surface with softened butter.
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Evenly sprinkle with the sugar and cinnamon mixture.
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Add chopped nuts.
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Distribute dates and raisins, having previously drained the cognac.
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Form into a roll.
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Pinch the edges.
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Grease a baking pan with butter (a pan 10 cm high and 20 cm in diameter was used) and place the roll into it.
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Let the dough rise. Place it in an oven preheated to 150 degrees for 20 minutes. Then increase the temperature to 180 degrees and bake for another 25–30 minutes.
