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Ingredients
- All purpose Flour - 1cup
- Cool Water - ½cup
- Instant Yeast - ⅛tsp
- Dough:
- All purpose Flour - 2¼cups
- Salt - 1¼tsp
- Instant Yeast - 1tbsp (SAF Gold Instant yeast preferred)
- Sugar - ⅓cup
- Butter - 4tbsp, at room temperature
- Fiori di Sicilia - ⅛tsp or 2tsp vanilla extract + ⅛tsp orange oil
- Grated peel of 1 Orange
- Dried fruit - 1cup, chopped if large (I used dried apricots, cranberries and raisins)
- For the Topping:
- Egg white - 1 large, reserved from the dough
- Almond Flour - 3tbsp or 3tbsp blanched almonds, finely ground
- Sugar - 2tbsp
- Sliced Almonds - 2tbsp
- Coarse White Sugar or Pearl Sugar or Demerera sugar- 5~6tsp
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