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It's a very strange time for us at the moment at Alledal Gård.

We've been here in Sweden for over 4 years, and during that time we have had some down moments, but mainly we've had a wonderful time trying to make a success of our little farm in Skåne. I have no regrets about coming to Sweden in the summer of 2006.

Now, I'm afraid, the end is nigh, and we are shutting down the farm. Over the last few weeks the chickens, ducks, and geese have found new homes, and hopefully in the next few days the goats will have new homes too. By the end of 2010 Alledal Gård will no longer be an active farm.

We've had some wonderful successes with the yellow ducks and the chickens particularly, and have found it to be incredibly rewarding. And for me personally, a fantastic way to switch off when I come back from work on my main job.

This is the beginning of a new chapter for us, and hopefully over the coming months we'll be able to share more of our plans for the future. If you've followed us over the years, many thanks, and I hope that we've brought some pleasure to you from our little corner of the Swedish countryside. 

 

 


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Scandinavian Cinnamon Buns Utskrift
Skrivet av Stephen Baines   
2006-09-03
In our quest to get into the swing of things here in Sweden, we made some Scandinavian Cinnamon Buns this morning for ficka later.

The dough is one of the strangest doughs I think I have ever made, being incredibly light and airy. It felt like the softest marshmallow you could ever make and still be solid. Whilst being beaten it was almost liquid, and only became solid once you stop - take great care making this, otherwise you'll be tempted to add too much flour to compensate for the weird dough!

Dough

800g flour (we used Finaste Kärn Vete Mjöl - roughly equivalent to bread flour)

100g caster sugar

1/2 tsp of salt

1 sachet of sweet dough yeast - in the UK use 20g of dried yeast

100g melted butter

400ml milk

2 eggs

 It starts of easy enough, put the flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a bowl. Melt the butter, and whisk into the milk and eggs, then add to the flour, and kneed (in a stand mixer for your own sanity!) for about 5 minutes. Do not add more flour - stop the mixer, and check the consistency and see that it is keeping shape more than it looks. Put in an oiled bowl for 25 minutes to prove.

Take a third of the dough, and line the bottom of a large non-stick roasting tin (there is lots of butter in the dough, so you don't need to worry about it sticking!).

Make the filling...

Filling

150g butter

150g soft brown sugar

 3 tsp cinnamon

Beat.

Roll the remaining dough very gently so as not to knock all the air out, and keep it light and fluffy to about 2ft square, and smeer with the filling. Roll into a long sausage, and cut into 2cm thick discs (they will be flattened a bit - help them back), and place onto the base you've prepared.

The prepared dough

Put the oven onto 230C and leave the buns on top to rest and rise for about 15 minutes or so.

Put in the oven for about 20mins, and leave to cool for 10 minutes, then enjoy!

Finished product

 

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