Showing posts with label bread/sweet bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bread/sweet bread. Show all posts

Spirals in union (Uniao em espirais)

Monday, 25 May 2009


Time of preparation: 2-3 hours

Dough:
3 cups of flour + 1 cup to work with the dough
3 yolks
1 tbspoon of sugar
1 tspoon of salt
1 envelope of yeast
1 cup of warm milk

Put the flour in a bowl and make a cavity in the center. Add the other ingredients and kneed it very well. Let it rest for an hour.

Filling
2 tbspoons of grated coconut
1 cup of sugar
2 tbsppons of butter

Mix it all until you get a cream. Set it aside.

Syrup
1 cup of milk
1 cup of sugar
1 tspoon of vanilla
1 tspoon of ground cinnamon

Boil it all to thicken a bit.


Once the dough has grown, remove a small piece and open it with the roll, about 0.5cm thick and cover the base of a round cake tin with a removable base. Open the rest of the dough, in the same thickness and spread the filling over it, with a knife. Roll the dough like a suiss roll and cut in small spirals of 3 cm of thickness.

Put the little spirals very close together, with the cut side up, on the covered cake base. Wait for its volume to double (about another hour) and bake in a preheated oven (gas mark 5) for around 25 min or until baked. When it's baked, turn off the oven, spread the syrup on top of it, evenly and put the pie back in the oven, waiting for it to cool down.

French bread (pão francês)

Sunday, 3 May 2009


Time of preparation: 4 hours

1/2kg of flour
15g of yeast (2 envelopes)
15g of salt (2-3 tspoons)
20g of sugar (1 tbspoon)
1 tbspoon of butter
300g of water

Dilute the yeast in warm water with the sugar. Mix all the other ingredients. Kneed the dough, stretching it forward with your palms, folding it on itself. The dough has to be elastic, not sticking to the hands, looking light and sponge like. If
necessary, add more water and flour.
Let it rest for 2 hours. Kneed it again and prepare the bread in the shape you want. Put it on a greased baking tray. If it is sticky, put more flour on top of the dough. Let it rest for another hour.
Bake it in a pre-heated oven for 30-40 min.

IMPORTANT: in order to make the crust while it bakes, you need to put a smaller tray in the oven with a bit of water. It needs water vapour to bake.

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