Ingredients

  • 3 cups raisins
  • 4 tablespoons rum
  • 8 cups flour
  • 2 cups lukewarm milk
  • 2 compressed yeast cakes
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 pinch salt
  • grated lemon zest
  • 2 teaspoons nutmeg
  • 2 cups butter
  • 3/4 cup ground or chopped almonds
  • 1 cup candied lemon peel, finely diced
  • 3/4 cup candied orange peel, finely diced
  • butter, for brushing
  • confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Method

  • Soak Raisins overnight in rum.
  • Prepare yeast dough with flour, milk, yeast, sugar, salt and butter.
  • Work in almonds, peels, nutmeg and raisins into dough, kneading well after each. Rest for 1 hour.
  • Knead dough again, divide in health, shape into stollen shape.
  • Bake in oven preheated to 350EsF for 1 hour.
  • While the stollen is war, brush it with melted butter and dust thickly with confectioners sugar.