Bread Baking Babes’ Kitchen of the month is located in the Netherlands. Monique from Living on Bread and Water chose an ancient recipe for Sûkerbôlle, a Frisian sugarbread. The recipe calls for sugar grains/lumps and ginger syrup. The latter was easy to get but the largest sugar grains I can get in Germany is hailstone sized Hagelzucker. Of course we have lump-sugar, which I don’t use, but the decorating sugar I have always at hand.
This sugar doesn’t give these big holes in the crumb, but it looks nice on the bread.
SÛKERBÔLLE – Suikerbrood – Frisian sugerbread – Zuckerbrot
In Schleswig-Holstein, where I live, we have also a Frisian part: Nordfriesland or North Frisia. And of course we have those beautiful black and white cows, the Holstein-Friesian. We don’t have any cows in our backyard like Tanna**, but I was able to take a picture with cows ;-) …
… no chance for them to move. The children were fond of this bread and asked for more, so I have to bake it soon again.
The recipe can be found over at Monique, fortunately it comes in metric units. I had to extend the baking time to approximately 50 minutes, because after 30 minutes the internal temperature was only 60 °C. I baked until the internal temperature reached 90 °C with the thermometer in the bread.
** December 2017: www.mykitcheninhalfcups.com/My_Kitchen_In_Half_Cups…Second_Helping_/My_Kitchen_in_Half_Cups…Second_Helping/Entries/2008/9/29_Entry_1.html now defunct
Das Brot sieht gut aus. Und wenn es bei den Kindern gut ankommt werde ich es auch mal versuchen. Mir gefallen die kleineren Löcher bei Dir gut.
Very nice loaf of bread Ulrike! It definitely goes down well with boys (either big or small) and I must say that even I like this a lot. Great to hear you are going to bake this more often!
This bread is really delicious. I didn’t have lumps of sugar, either, so I bought sugar cubes and pounded them with a mallet. Since I have so much sugar left over, I will have to make this again!
Bread Cows
I like your cows every bit as much as mine Ulrike! And your bread is beautiful as always!! I think big and little boys like this. I really loved these ‘hail’ size sugars!