EASTER BREAD FOR EASTER SUNDAY

 EASTER BREAD

FOR EASTER SUNDAY



This is a traditional Italian bread – made a with a brioche dough and decorated with coloured eggs. NB: It takes two days to make.
The Brioche recipe is from: Rodolphe Landemaine, "The Complete Guide to Baking” Hardie Grant Books, at pp. 224 et seq.
BRIOCHE DOUGH
INGREDIENTS
DOUGH
175 g pastry flour
2 eggs
40g caster sugar
2g orange blossom water
10g white rum
10 g fresh baker’s yeast
3g salt
50g unsalted butter at room temperature, cut into small cubes
GLAZE
1 egg
3g (1/2 teaspoon) milk
pinch salt
THE DAY BEFORE
1 Put the flour, eggs, milk, orange blossom water, rum, crumbled yeast and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer.
2 Knead for 4 minutes at the lowest speed, then 8 minutes at medium speed, until the dough pulls away from the side of the bowl. During kneading, scape down the sides of the bowl regularly.
3 Return to the lowest speed and add the soft butter. Knead slowly until well incorporated.
4 Transfer the dough to a floured, round-bottom bowl, cover with plastic wrap (with the plastic touching the dough), and leave to undergo pointage for 1 hour at room temperature.
5 Fold the dough, return to the bowl, cover with plastic wrap (again touching the dough) and refrigerate overnight.
ON THE DAY
5 Divide the dough into equal parts using a dough cutter and roll under the palm of your hand to obtain two even sausages 60 cm long.
6 Shape the plait into 4 strands. Make a cross with the two sausages, the vertical sausage on top of the horizontal sausage.
7 Cross over the horizontal strands, passing the strand from the right strand from the left.
8 Cross over the vertical strands, passing the top strand over the bottom strand.
9 Repeat: the strand from the right passes over the strand from the left.
10 The upper strand passes over the bottom strand.
11 Continue until you run out of strands. Join the ends:
[Make the plaited dough into a circle and insert a coloured Easter Egg in the centre – a hard-boiled egg, not chocolate!!!].
12 Make the glaze by beating the egg, milk and salt. Apply the glaze with a pastry brush. Leave the brioche on a sheet of baking paper to prove for 4 hours in a warm place.
13 Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C with a baking sheet inside. Glaze the brioche again. Remove the sheet from the oven and slide the baking paper with the brioche onto it. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Image is from An Italian in my Kitchen

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