What is the pulla?
Pulla is a Finnish dessert bread. It is usually consumed with coffee in Finland. The bread is yeast and its primary taste comes from cardamoma, spices commonly used in Scandinavian pastries and also in Indian cooking.
People in Finland usually eat a pulla around the Christmas season. They also eat bread during the coffee time in the middle of the day. While some people do pulla at home, it is just as often purchased from a shop or bakery. The spice comes from India and other parts of Southeast Asia. Cardamom first went to Scandinavia after some Vikings bought it from Constantinople. It has a fruit taste similar to citrus.
While cardamom is used to flavor spicy meals and tea elsewhere in the world, in Finland and other Scandinavian countries that are used almost exclusively in baking. Other Scandinavian countries have breads that are similar to pulla and that Contain cardamom. In Sweden, bread is known as vetebrod , while in Norway it is known as hvetebrod , of whichBoth medium wheat bread. Like many spices, the baker gets the best taste if it crushes the seeds because it needs to use preliminary spices. Most Pully recipes require a teaspoon and two teaspoons of ground cardamom.
When it comes to texture and taste, Pulla is very similar to bread and brioch. It is a very rich bread, usually made of butter, eggs and egg yolks and milk. Some recipes require heavy cream in addition to milk.
Like the Challah bread, the pulla can be tangled before it is roasted. In order to meet the bread, the baker must divide the dough into three of the same size. He should collect ropes at one end and then combine them as if someone's hair. Bread can also be shaped into a circle or roles.
The bread is usually glazed with an egg and a little milk before baking. Some bakers also sprinkled sliced almonds or raw sugar into the dough. The dough contains a lotBread sugar that contributes to its sweet taste. Baker can adjust the amount of sugar in the recipe depending on how sweet wants to be the final bread. Recipes usually require a third and one full cup of sugar.