Loaf "Wedding"

Description

There is a lovely tradition to serve the Bridal table, a huge, white, multi-tiered cake, decorated with all sorts of edible flowers, bows, hearts and ribbons. In the old days instead of a cake (in addition to hospitable wedding cake, which the parents met their children-newlyweds at the threshold of the house) put on a festive table is different kurnik, pies and sweet buns, decorated with plaits, petals, hearts or doves. Put up for your consideration is a wonderful recipe wedding loaf from great test the scalded milk and melted butter, with honey-poppy seeds. Well, let's have a trip all together in the culinary traditions of the Saratov province of the 19th century? Then follow me! For the contest "Journey to ancient recipes".

Ingredients

Milk

500 ml
Butter

8 Tbsp
Sugar

8 Tbsp
Honey

2 Tbsp
Mac

100 g
Salt

0.5 tsp
Yeast

30 g
Flour

6 cup

Cooking

So, let's make the dough. This process is long and laborious, but it's worth it. Dissolve yeast in the warm scalded milk, add sugar and salt. Add 3 cups flour, knead well and leave to rise the dough 2 times.

Mac rinse and pour boiling water for 20 minutes.

In the risen dough add 2 more cups of flour, add 2 tbsp soft butter, but not melted, and it is good to drive carefully vymeshivaem. Put the dough in a warm place and let rise again.

While the dough rises, prepare the filling: drain the water from the poppy seeds, in a pan melt the honey and melted butter.

This hot mass to spread the poppy seeds, add 2 tbsp sugar, mix well.

Cook after boiling for 7-8 minutes. Cool.

Then the risen dough to put 2 tablespoons of melted butter, good to drive, like rubbing (hence the name "mass dough", "old hand", oil rubbed into the dough). Again put in a warm place to rise.

As the dough rises, it is good to press down and spread on the table, sprinkled with flour. Add 2 more tbsp of ghee and flour (about 1 Cup), knead well, driving the oil and flour.

The dough sprinkle with flour and give rasstoyatsya another 30 minutes.

Then punch down the dough and divide into 4 parts, each should be slightly less than the other. The three parts of the s layer and one part for decoration.

Roll out a circular layer of the biggest part of the test.

Put a layer on greased baking sheet. On the layer to put the honey poppy seed filling, not reaching the edges of 1.5-2 cm

Roll out dough the next layer slightly smaller than the previous one, and cover with a layer of poppy.

Spread on top of the remaining filling and cover with rolled out the third layer.

Of the remaining dough to make a braid, hearts, flowers, etc to decorate the loaf. Coat it with egg yolk mixed with a teaspoon of milk and a pinch of sugar.

Early was baked in the Russian stove, and we put our wedding loaf in a preheated gas oven, and will bake at 180 degrees for about 50-55 minutes. Look like this I got... mmm... the aroma is simply divine!

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