Has anyone ever tasted the Easter sweet bread cooked after the Transylvanian recipe? If not, I strongly recommend that you try this.
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It is delicious, not very sweet, and ideal for Easter breakfast. With a little butter on top and a slice of smoked and boiled ham, it’s a delight.
The sweet bread made from the Transylvanian or Hungarian recipe is a little sweet and consumed instead of bread. We in the family make the braid version with and without raisins.
Let’s Get Started the Sweet Bread
When it comes to cooked sweet bread and making leavened dough, many people are discouraged. But believe me, it’s not that hard and the result will delight you. Homemade sweet bread is very tasty and does not compare to taste with the one on the market.
The only things to keep in mind are the quality and quantity of the ingredients.
It starts with proofing the yeast. For this, we cut 25 g of fresh yeast in 300 ml of warm milk in which I put a spoon of sugar.
I stir everything and let it stand for 15-20 minutes in a warming place to proof.
I put the hand of brown raisins in 100 ml of hot water and a teaspoon of rum essence for 10 minutes.
After being soaked, I took them out of the water and dried them on a paper towel.
I melted 50 g of unsalted butter.
In the dough, we also need two egg yolks.
For one sweet bread, I used 500 g of wheat flour type 000 (triple zero) in which I put a pinch of salt and the rest of the sugar. We need 40 grams of sugar, of which I put one tablespoon of sugar on the yeast.
Make the Dough
We are going to mix the ingredients. In the middle of the wheat flour put the melted butter and egg yolks.
Then turn the milk with the proofed yolk of the raisins. We mix everything well and start kneading the dough. To ease your work you can use an electric mixer using a dough hook attachment.
I knead the dough with my hand because I like to feel the dough and how it is formed. I knead the dough for about 15 minutes until the dough does not stick off the bowl.
Coat the dough with flour, cover it with a kitchen towel and put it in a warm place to rise for one-one and a half hours.
The dough must double its volume. After growing, I removed the dough to a table, sprinkled with flour and I split it into four parts.
From each quarter, we’re rolling a 15 “-16” rope that we are braiding.
I anointed with some butter a baking dish and sprinkled with flour on the inside. I put the braid in this pot, and I left it for another 30 minutes to rest.
Cooking the Sweet Bread
In one bowl I mixed an egg with a spoonful of milk. With this, I thoroughly dip the knit dough to get a nice colour when baking. I preheat the oven to 150 degrees and put the dough in baking for 45-50 minutes.
After I removed the cake from the oven, I covered it with a kitchen towel and allowed it to cool.
Delicious! I recommend you try this recipe or the cottage cheese donuts.
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Sweet Bread-Transylvanian Easter Recipe with Raisins
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 500 g wheat flour tip 000 or 00
- 25 g yeast fresh or 2 teaspoon dry yeast
- 300 ml milk
- 40 g sugar
- 2 pieces egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon rum flavor
- 50 g raisins brown or yellow
- 50 g butter unsalted and melted
From glaze:
- 1 piece egg
- 1 tbsp milk
Instructions
Let’s Get Started
- When it comes to cooked sweet bread and making leavened dough, many people are discouraged. But believe me, it’s not that hard and the result will delight you. Home made sweet bread is very tasty and does not compare to taste with the one in the market.
- The only things to keep in mind are the quality and quantity of the ingredients.
- It starts with proofing the yeast. For this, we cut 25 g of fresh yeast in 300 ml of warm milk in which I put a spoon of sugar. I stir everything and let it stand for 15-20 minutes in a warming place to proof.
- I put the hand of brown raisins in 100 ml of hot water and a teaspoon of rum essence for 10 minutes. After being soaked, I took them out of the water and dried them on a paper towel.
- I melted 50 g of unsalted butter. In the dough we also need two egg yolks.
- For one sweet bread, I used 500 g of wheat flour type 000 (triple zero) in which I put a pinch of salt and the rest of the sugar. We need 40 grams of sugar, of which I put one tablespoon of sugar on the yeast.
Make the Dough
- We are going to mix the ingredients. We need 40 grams of sugar, of which I put one tablespoon of sugar on the yeast. Then turn the milk with the proofed yolk the raisins.
- We mix everything well and start knead the dough. To ease your work you can use an electric mixer using a dough hook attachment.
- I knead the dough with my hand because I like to feel the dough how it is formed. I knead the dough for about 15 minutes until the dough not stick off the bowl.
- Coat the dough with flour, cover with a kitchen towel and put in a warm place to rise for one-one and a half of hour. Dough must double its volume.
- After growing, I removed the dough on a table, sprinkled with flour and I split it into four parts. From each quarter, we’re rolling a 15 “-16” rope that we are braiding.
- I anointed with some butter a baking dish, and sprinkled with flour on the inside. I put the braid in this pot, and I left it for another 30 minutes to rest.
Cooking the Sweet Bread
- In one bowl I mixed an egg with a spoonful of milk. With this, I thoroughly dip the knit dough to get a nice color when baking.
- I preheat the oven to 150 degrees and put the dough in baking for 45-50 minutes.
- After I removed the cake from the oven, I covered it with a kitchen towel and allowed it to cool.
