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Hefekranz - German Sweet Bread

I have received an unholy number of requests for my recipe. So here it is, at long last.

Disseminate at your own discretion!

Preparation and baking time: 3-5 hours

Feeds: One really hungry person; two moderately hungry people; three or four normal-hungry people; or maybe five peckish people.

Warning: Dangerously delicious.

1. Ingredients

1.1 Dough:

500g/1lb flour

100g+20g (3.5oz+1oz) sugar (or more, to taste. I occasionally pig out and add ALL of the sugar)

250ml/½ pint milk (I use semi-skimmed, but recipe calls for full. This is up to you)

21g/0.75oz yeast

1 egg

½ tsp salt (this is not necessary)

80g/3oz butter (salted, preferably)

Optional ingredients:

Cinnamon sugar (cinnamon + sugar + shaking; quantities are flexible and mostly up to you. Warning: this makes your hefekranz taste a lot like magic. Add in step 14)

Vanilla (vanilla sugar or pod seeds; add early for maximum effect)

Raisins (add when the moment feels right)

1.2 Glaze:

1 egg

1.3 Frosting

milk and powder sugar (amounts depend on dough size… it’s complicated. See step 21).

Optional:

Thinly sliced almonds to sprinkle over the top.

2. Preparation: (it’s really not as complicated as it looks, I promise!)

1. Prepare ingredient quantities as outlined above. It’s good to have the butter quite warm, but will work with cold butter too. 2. In a large mixing bowl, mix together 100g/3.5oz sugar and the flour. 3. Warm your milk to lukewarm. DO NOT OVERHEAT; the yeast will die a horrible death and instead of bread you will wind up making a rock. A delicious rock, but a rock nonetheless. 4. Add 20g/1oz sugar to the milk. Stir well to dissolve. Then add yeast. Leave this mixture to activate for at least five minutes.

5. While you wait, heat your butter in a microwave until it is basically delicious yellow liquid. 6. After activation of yeast, the container with the milk should be frothing like a rabid dog. Add butter, yeast mixture, and an egg to your flour.

7. Knead into a dough. Add flour as necessary (I usually have to add about 150g/5oz of flour at this stage, but it depends on your flour). Continue to knead for 8-10 minutes. Work those muscles.

8. When your dough is smooth and relatively dry to the touch, but still malleable, flour the base of your bowl, put in the dough, and put it aside to let it rise (N.B. if you do this in the open, cover with a clean dishcloth to avoid nasty things landing in your delicious dough). I recommend putting it in an oven at 40-60°C/100-140°F, if you can, to rise. Rising can take anywhere from 1-3 hours, depending on temperature.

9. When dough has become enormous, remove from the bowl, and knead for another minute or two. 10. Set your oven to 160°C/320°F (or thereabouts). 11. Test your dough. You know you want to. MMMMmmmmm. Yeah, that’s right. 12. Divide dough into three or four equally sized balls (four is easier because… halves). 13. Take each of these balls and rub it between your hands (hoho, saucy) to elongate it into a noodle shape (let’s be honest, this is the phallic part). Best results come from fairly thick and short strands (this is not getting any better, sorry). 14. OPTIONAL: Roll these strands out flat (lengthways), sprinkle with magic powder (cinnamon sugar) and then roll them up again to make a cinnamon core to each strand. 15. Braid your strands together. The easiest way to do this is to treat it like a weaving project and start in the middle and work towards each end. But you can also start at the ends and braid from there. Cover your strands in flour if they are getting hard to braid – but don’t overdo it, or your bread will be quite floury.

16. Cover this beautiful creation with a dishcloth, and let it rise for 30 minutes. This seals the gaps in your crappy braids. 17. While you wait, prepare your glaze: Get a cup, and beat an egg in it. 18. After your 30 minutes has passed, with either a paper towel (if you are a poor student) or a basting brush (if you are a swanky monkey), gently glaze your ENTIRE loaf (except the underside, obviously). Make sure to get the egg in the cracks. The whole thing should be shiny by this stage. 19. Throw your bread in the oven! 20. Cook for 25 minutes at 160°C/320°F, or until the outside of the bread is about the colour of Chewbacca. Lower the temperature to 140°C/280°F, and continue to cook for a further 15 minutes or so. Make sure it doesn’t get too dark; some ovens cool down slower than others. 21. While you wait to cook, prepare your frosting: Take about half a cup of powder sugar, and add a dribble of milk to it. Stir with a fork or spoon. Bear in mind that this will become VERY thin VERY quickly. Add sugar or milk as required to make a frosting that is just thin enough that your silverware no longer stands up in it. You want it to flow out of the cup when you frost. 22. Once your bread is done, remove, frost, and let cool for five to twenty minutes, or as long as you can keep your hungry claws off of it.

For maximum pleasure, cut thick slices (nearly 2cm thick or so), and make some hot chocolate. Dip the bread IN the hot chocolate. Let it soak for a bit. Transfer to mouth. Smile and look wistfully out the window.

And remember: pics or it didn’t happen.

ohgodthatcandlesmellsbad

markscherz

A thing of beauty!! I will have to try that cinnamon on top of the loaf before baking!

#recipes

ramen8008

Wonder Woman: Batman, we could make good use of Nightwing with this. Would you call him?

Dick, who's filling in for Bruce as Batman: I'll call him

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Hal: you've gained some muscles

Jason, dressed as Nightwing: I started working out

Hal: Damn. What's the routine cause I just saw you last week and you look completely different.

Jason: steroids

Dick, as batman: *chokes on coffee*

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Superman: We might need someone who's good with guns, hm... Hey Nightwing you're in contact with redhood, right? Could you have him come?

Jason, as Nightwing: ... I don't see why not

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Wonder woman: this security is an issue we need someone who can hack this system long enough for us to get pass

Superman: hey hood, any chance you can give red robin a call?

Tim, with 5 inches of padding, as redhood: on it

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Hal: isn't robin usually with you all?

Flash: yeah we could use him with this one

Superman: Red Robin, would you call in Robin for us?

Damian, in red robin costume: he's dead

#dc

smieska

ashcremated

shhhh theyre sleeby 🤏🤏

#atla

beardedmrbean

Not entirely sure what to do with this information

daftpatience

the scene in artificial condition where mb is talking to [threatening presence] thru the door feels like guard doggy. is it just me or did we all imagine them standing really close to the door in a sort of intense way. anyways

#murderbot

catgriller

Sasuke…oh my Sasuke..

#naruto

sreppub

always so fun when dick comes home

luci3skydi

^bet:

Fics with Dick there too:

emotional breakthroughs are afoot (series) by iselsis

—Jason breaks his foot on patrol and doesn’t tell Bruce. Dick in second & third parts.

Fujiwhara Effect by byrambles

—Dick and Jason(the og replacement child) air everything out and it only takes the destruction of one white couch.

what’s in a name by envysparkler

—Dick angsting over Jason being adopted when he wasn’t. And then all three of them get kidnapped.

Bruce is actually a good parent:

Safe Space by Cerusee

—Jason Todd’s premature parentification issues.

Our World is Topsy-Turvey by Cerusee

—Jaybaby and Bruce deal with the class jump via The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Illusion of Choice by GalaxyOwl13

—Jason thinks everything is a test

Crack:

Sold to Wonder Woman (by my evil adoptive father Batman) by Jeanjacketcarf

—Jaybin vents via fanfiction. It’s so funny. Wheeze inducing. (Locked fic—need an account to read)

Jason and Bruce’s relationship shatters:

and i don’t know you, i used to like to pretend to by SixMiscellaneousNebulae

—Jason’s an emotional/angry crier. Deals with The Diplomat’s Son.

Why We Fall by scandalsavage

—We get the convo between Jason and Felipe on that balcony. Fragile crystal.

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. by lazarus (zabiume)

—Jaybin as the cracks appear. Despair! Conflicting truths! Lobsters!

Love Yourself (So No One Has To) by orphanaccount

—Ahhhhh the cracks in Jason and Bruce’s relationship before death in the family are allowed to shatter because he doesn’t die!! (Bruce tries to fire Jason…does not work…)

Already Dead by GalaxyOwl13

—Jason and Bruce and vampires—what does it mean to be alive? How alive do you have to be to be able to die? Jaybin asks a lot of questions in this one—I love a Jaybin that challenged the conventional ways of doing things. Bruce essentially just says ‘because I said so’ in this one and it’s so fascinating.

Outsider pov:

stain the morning sun by valkyriered

Midnighter meets Jaybin on the battlefield during an alien invasion. I looooove this one. Sharp.

Jason is not Robin aus:

born fighter by stupidandsad

—-Sharp and acerbic, Jason stops a mugging and the Bat tries to talk to him.

this kind of weather by r_astra

—Jason gets adopted at like 16 instead of like 12. Bruce is his bio dad. Fucking amazing dialogue. (Locked work—need an account to read)

something in the static (series) by BoneRot19

—Catherine dies later in the timeline so he meets Batman late. Jason is so fucking coooooool. His life is falling apart.

making the best of it by the_grande_dame

—Omega!Jason gets kidnapped (adopted) and thinks that he’s been bride-napped as a gift for Dick. Bruce doesn’t make him Robin or even tell him he’s Batman. But I love this version of baby Jay. A/b/o. (Locked fic—need an account to read)

Bonus!:

dead boy walking by hellsreluctantheir

—Under the Hood Jason gets transformed by a spell into his Jaybin era body.

(Locked work—need an account to read)

Wing Beats in Reverse by firefright

—reverse robins au starring Jaybin and Red Hood Tim Drake. (Locked fic—need an account to read)

The Lost Undead (series) by Wisetypewriter

—Jason time travels (mysterious/not explained) back to the day he leaves to meet Sheila. He makes a different choice! Dick is important in later parts.

The We in I by forestgreen

—this is pretty off prompt but it has such a cool interpretation of Jason’s Jaybin era that I wanted to include it. Also the narrator kind of is young Jason even though he’s living as the Red Hood. Dissociative Identity Disorder is complicated.

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This is really making me realize that I don’t think I’ve ever read a simple Jaybin case fic before…maybe one day!

sreppub

!!!

#dc #fic rec