Portuguese holiday bread Folar de Páscoa translates to “easter present”. Traditionally godparents gave such a pie, with boiled egg inside, his godchildren for Easter. Soft, rich and delicious bread usually eaten with tea or milk, buttering and various jams. It is also great for toasts and sandwiches. The main ingredients of Portuguese sweet bread are milk, flour, eggs, sugar, butter and yeast. The dough is easy kneads both manually and with a mixer. Formed loaves in front of by baking, grease with a beaten egg so that they are covered with a shiny crust.
Recipe author – Margie Buzam and Francis Medeiros
Time: 1 hour. 15 minutes. Difficulty: easy Amount: 7 tear-off buns In recipes volumetric containers are used in volume: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cups (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (Art.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 3 bars of fresh pressed yeast
- 0.5 tbsp. warm water
- 2 tbsp. warm skim milk (or cooled boiled milk whole milk)
- 2.25 kg. premium flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 12 fresh eggs, room temperature
- 3.5 tbsp. Sahara
- 3 tbsp. l lemon juice
- 220 gr melted butter
- 2 tbsp. l salt
- 1 egg whipped
Recipes with similar ingredients: yeast dough, higher flour varieties, eggs, milk
Recipe preparation:
- Dissolve pressed yeast 0.5 tbsp. warm water (not hot). Add 2 tbsp. warm skim milk (or boiled whole milk, slightly cooled), 3 tbsp. flour and 1 hour l salt. Mix and set aside so that the yeast bloomed.
- In a separate bowl, combine 12 fresh eggs, sugar, and lemon juice. Beat well and then add melted butter. Add the yeast mixture, the remaining flour and 2 tbsp. l salt. Knead dough and let it rest 10-20 minutes.
- Keep kneading with a mixer until the dough starts to lag behind bowls, or knead with oiled hands until the dough is lag behind hands. It will take some time, and the dough turns out sticky as opposed to bread dough. Put it in greased bowl with butter, cover and leave for about 1-3 hours to dough doubled.
- Then press the dough, turn over and leave to rise a second times until it doubles again in volume.
- Carefully tear off about 300 grams. dough and shape beautiful loaves. Put them in a greased form. Must get 5-7 good loaves. Leave to rise in forms in third time.
- Make at the top of each loaf 2-3 cuts with a depth of 0.5 see, and then grease the tops with an egg beaten with 1 tbsp. l water.
- Bake at 160 ° C for about 10 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 150 ° C and bake another 25-30 minutes.
- Remove the bread from the oven and place the loaves on their side on the wire rack. for a couple of minutes, then lay out of the forms.
