BREAD RECIPES
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Bread Recipes
Oaxacan Day of the Dead Bread
From 'Mexico The Cookbook' by Margarita Carrillo Arronte
Ingredients
- 250g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 2 tbsp sugar
- Pinch of salt
- ¾ tsp active dry yeast
- 1 egg
- 5 tbsp milk
- ¼ tsp orange blossom extract
- 50g butter
- 1 tsp anise seeds
- To Decorate:
- 1 egg
- Sesame seeds, for sprinkling
Recipe
- Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the centre. Put the sugar, salt, and yeast into the well. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Transfer the dough to a clean work surface and knead for 10 minutes. Put the dough back into the bowl, cover with a dish towel, and let rise for 1-2 hours or until doubled in size.
- Once risen, half the dough and shape each piece into an oval. Make a cut in each side and separate the dough to make arms. Make a cut in the middle at one end and separate the dough to make legs.
- Cover and let rise for 45 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- To decorate, beat the egg with 1 teaspoon water and brush the glaze over the loaf, then sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes. To test if the loaf is cooked, tap the base and if it sounds hollow, it is ready. Transfer to a wire rack to cool before serving.
- You can decorate these figures with faces using food colouring and icing. In Mexico, special faces on sticks are pushed into the loaves to finish the persons look!