Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread). This delicacy, whose name directly translates as “spiced bread”, is made with rye flour, wheat flour, or a combination of the two. There are as many variations of the recipe for pain d’épices as there are regions in France, but the two most famous are the original from Reims, made with dark rye flour and without the addition of milk and eggs, and a version from Dijon made with wheat flour. Adapted from Baking for All Occasions by Flo Braker Pain d’épices makes the most wonderful afternoon snack when you’re foraging around for something slightly sweet, as I often find myself doing, but don’t want something rich or creamy.
A classic French loaf that’s simple to make and requires no kneading. This recipe is taken from Crumb by Richard Bertinet, published by Kyle Books. To keep your finished spice bread fresh and stop it drying out, wrap in a clean towel or baking paper once cooked. You can cook Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread) using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread)
- It’s 1/2 cup of + 1/3 cup (200ml) water.
- Prepare 1/3 cup (125 g) of honey.
- It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 2 cups (250 g) of flour.
- Prepare 1/3 cup (55 g) of sugar.
- It’s 1 Tbsp of anise seeds.
It should keep for up to a week. To add a gorgeous glaze to your spice bread, cover with orange syrup or marmalade before baking. Pain d’épices or pain d’épice (French for ‘“spice bread”’, loosely translated as gingerbread) is a French cake or quick bread. In Alsace, a considerable tradition incorporates a pinch of cinnamon.
Pain d’épices (Spiced Sweet Bread) step by step
- Preheart your oven to 300°F/150°C..
- Place water, honey and baking soda in a small pan. If you have a food scale it is easy to weigh 125g of your honey when you put the pan directly on the scale. This also reduces cleanup..
- Bring ingredients to a boil over medium heat. Remove from heat and add the rest of ingredients. Mix them all..
- Bake about 50 minutes or until the bread is done. Remove from your oven and enjoy with a cup of hot milk tea!.
- I added cinnamon, nutmeg, marmalade and cranberries this time for my husband. Yum yum :).
According to Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, the commercial production of pain d. This honey spice cake recipe is known as a pain d’épices in France. This speciality of the Alsace region has been around for hundreds of years and you will find different ways of making it all over France and much of Europe. The method given here can be easily followed by home cooks. Kamel Saci, head baker at New York’s Il Buco Alimentari, flavors his pain d’épices, a classic French spiced bread, with a vibrant spice mixture of star anise, ginger, and cinnamon from spice.