Sweet white bread accordion with orange and raisins

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make sweet bread? Prepare all ingredients. Take the flour of the highest grade, eggs of category C1, take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance – it should be soft, milk can be used of any fat content.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour boiling water over the oranges and leave to dry. Put the raisins in a bowl, pour boiling water, tip them into a colander after a couple of minutes, then put the raisins on a towel and let it dry.

3. Step 3:

   

   Sift wheat flour through a sieve into the bowl in which you will knead the dough. Due to sifting, the flour will be filled with oxygen, which will make the dough more tender and soft, and it will also remove unnecessary impurities and garbage cans that may be in this product.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add dry yeast, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt to the flour. Mix all the dry ingredients with a whisk for 1 minute, so the dough will become even more airy.

5. Step 5:

   

   Put the butter in a small ladle and melt. Pour milk and water into another ladle, warm it up a little on the stove. The milk liquid should be slightly warm, but not hot, otherwise the yeast will die in superheated milk water.

6. Step 6:

   

   In a bowl with loose ingredients, beat eggs, pour melted butter and warmed milk water. First, start kneading the dough with a wooden spoon, and then, when the dough comes together in one lump, transfer it to a work surface sprinkled with flour, and knead with your hands for about 7 more minutes. If necessary, you can add flour, but do not clog the dough, otherwise it will turn out very hard and tasteless.

7. Step 7:

   

   Return the kneaded dough to the bowl, cover with a towel and put in a warm place for 1 hour. While the dough is being prepared, do the filling.

9. Step 8:

   

   Remove the zest from the oranges. Mix granulated sugar with ground cinnamon.

10. Step 9:

    

    After 1 hour, the dough should increase by about 2 times.

11. Step 10:

    

    Knead the dough that has come up and use a rolling pin to roll out the dough into a layer about 50 cm in size.*50cm. Lubricate the surface of the dough with soft butter. Spread the dried raisins and orange zest evenly on the dough, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Cut the dough into 6 long strips and cut each strip into 5 more pieces. Fold each blank in half.

12. Step 11:

    

    A rectangular bread baking dish with a size of 30cm.*10cm. brush with vegetable oil. Put the billets folded in half into the mold, alternating their bends first up, then down, again up, and so on. Leave the collected sweet bread for proofing for 15-20 minutes, covered with a towel so that the dough does not chafe. At this time, put the oven on 175oC to warm up.

13. Step 12:

    

    After the specified time, put the bread form in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remember that the duration and temperature of baking depends on the temperature and design of your oven.

14. Step 13:

    

    Prepare the glaze. In a bowl, sift powdered sugar, add orange juice, mix. Instead of orange juice, you can use filtered water.

15. Step 14:

    

    When the sweet bread is ready, take it out of the oven, let it rest in the form for 10 minutes, then remove it, put it on a dish, and pour icing on top.