Swiss Bread Recipes

SWISS SUNDAY BREAD

Steps:

• Place flour into a bowl, creating a small hole in the center. Sprinkle salt around the edge and place yeast and sugar into the hole.
• Mix egg and egg white together in a 2-cup measuring cup. Add enough water to reach the 1 1/4 cup mark. Stir in milk. Add melted butter. Pour into the center of the flour. Mix thoroughly, adding more milk or flour as needed until dough is smooth and elastic. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and let rise for 30 minutes.
• Cut dough in 1/2. Form each 1/2 into a long roll. Lay rolls out in front of you on a work surface in an 'X' shape. Braid bread by constantly switching the ends. Place bread onto a baking sheet, cover with a damp cloth, and let rise for 15 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Brush bread with beaten egg using a pastry brush.
• Bake in the preheated oven on the middle rack until golden, about 30 minutes.

SWISS CHRISTMAS BREAD

Steps:

• In a saucepan, heat milk, water, and butter or margarine until warm.
• In large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups flour, yeast, 1/4 cup sugar, salt, nutmeg, mace, and cloves; mix well. Stir in warm milk mixture and egg. Blend with an electric mixer at low speed until moistened; beat 3 minutes at medium speed. By hand, stir in raisins, cherries, citron, nuts, and enough remaining flour to make a firm dough.
• Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic, 5 to 8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover. Let rise in warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
• Punch dough down. Shape into a round loaf, and place in a greased 2 quart casserole. Cover, and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Brush top of loaf with melted butter, and sprinkle lightly with 1 teaspoon sugar.
• Bake at 375 degrees F ( 190 degrees C) for 40 to 45 minutes, until deep golden brown. If too dark, cover loosely with foil last 5 to 10 minutes of baking. Cool.

SWISS BEER BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Divide cheese in half. Cut half into 1/4-in. cubes; shred remaining cheese. In a large bowl, combine next 5 ingredients. Stir beer into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in cubed and shredded cheese., Transfer to a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan. Drizzle with butter. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50-60 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

SWISS CHEESE BREAD

Steps:

• Cut bread in half crosswise. Make diagonal cuts, 1 in. apart, through bread but not through bottom. Combine all remaining ingredients. Spread half the butter mixture between bread slices. Spread remaining mixture over top and sides of bread., Place bread on double thickness of foil; cover loosely with more foil. Bake at 425° for 20-30 minutes. For last 5 minutes, remove foil covering bread to allow it to brown.

ZOPF - GREAT TASTING SWISS BREAD!

Steps:

• Put the flour into a bowl. If you are using a Kitchen Aid you can put it into that mixing bowl.
• Mix 2 teaspoons of salt with flour.
• Make an indentation into the middle of flour.
• Pour 1 dl milk into a cup (microwavable)
• Add 2 tsp sugar into the milk, stir well.
• Heat milk for 30 seconds in the microwave.
• Add 21 grams yeast into the milk and stir well.
• Pour yeast into the indentation in the flour.
• Let the yeast sit for 10 minutes.
• Cut butter into small pieces.
• Put pieces into a pan and melt on medium heat.
• Add 6 dl milk to the melted butter; make sure butter is lukewarm.
• Go back to your flour and yeast and now put the bowl into the mixer and mix on the lowest setting.
• Add the melted butter to the dough while mixing.
• Let mix for 10 minutes.
• Loosen the dough from the bowl and put a wet cloth over the dough. Make sure it is loose to allow room for rising.
• Let sit for one hour.
• Pre heat oven to 425(f).
• Separate dough into two pieces. Each piece will make a single loaf of bread.
• With one of the pieces, separate it into two sections and roll them out and a floured surface. You want to roll them so the middle is the thickest and the ends are slightly narrower.
• Fold dough --
• *start by putting one roll vertically and one on top of it horizontally.
• *fold top part down to bottom (left).
• *fold bottom part to top (right).
• *fold left part to right (top).
• *fold right part to left (bottom).
• *repeat- at end, join parts together.
• Separate an egg yolk from the egg white.
• Break the yolk and add a drop of half and half or heavy cream (optional).
• Use food brush to spread yolk on dough- avoid crevices.
• Put dough into oven with small bowl of water. Put dough on wax paper to prevent the bread from sticking.
• After 10 min., set temperature of oven down to 395(F) for 20 minute.
• Take out of oven. The bread is done.
• Let cool on a cooling rack and enjoy!

SWISS BREAD

Steps:

• Slice french bread on the diagonal, 3/4 of the way through the bread. Make sure that you do not cut all the way through the bottom of the bread.
• Place one slice of cheese in each slice of bread.
• Mix remaining ingredients together and spread evenly over top of bread.
• Wrap loaf in foil and bake at 325 for 25 to 30 minutes.
• Serve and Enjoy!