Fruechte Brot

Ingredients

27 oz pears
3 1/2 apricots
3 1/2 plums
2 5/8 oranges
3 1/2 oz dates
6 oz walnutmeat
1 1/8 oz yeast
3 1/2 oz sugar
2 tb butter
2 1/8 lb flour
1 t salt
3 1/2 oz raisins
1/2 ts orangepeel
1 t cinnamon
2 cherry liquor
1/2 ingwer powder
1 kardamom powder
1/2 c warm water
1 powdered sugar

Instructions

the walnuts. 3. Break up the yeast and mix with one teaspoon sugar and the lukewarm water and cover it and let stand on a warm place for 10 minutes. 4. Melt the butter and mix with salt and flour; add the yeastmix and knead, cover and let it rise on a warm place until doubled in size. 5. Mix raisins, sugar, grated lemonpeel, cinnamon, cloves, ingwer, cardamom and the dried fruits and the nuts; knead them into dough. 6. Form a loaf and put onto a waxpaper covered cookiesheet. 7. Preheat oven to 200 C and bake for 75 minutes. 8. When cool sprinkle with a little powdered sugar. Out of Funk Uhr magazine Translated by Brigitte Sealing