bread

For relaxation, I decided to bake my homemade bread. After my first success, I was looking for some special bread. I found an interesting specialty from the ethnographic-tradition.

Traditionally, mothers in old times, when they were baking bread, prepared small bread for the children.
It was intended not only for children but also for adults going in the vineyard, so that the wine did not catch them.

Over time, the bread was formed into a protected dish called "Belokranjska pogača" (the Bela Krajina Cake). I also find a recipe for it.

The Bela krajina cake

Bela Krajina cake is the most famous Bela krajina dish. It is round shape, coated with a stepped egg, sprinkled with grain caraway and with a thicker salt, cut into squares. The taste and flavor are similar to freshly baked bread. When baked, it is 3 to 4 cm high and 1 to 2 cm on the edge.

The Bela Krajina cake is offered warm and not cut, but it breaks along the sloping lines.

Ingridients

50 dag (500 g) soft white flour
3 dcl of lukewarm water
2 teaspoons (15 g) of salt
20 g of yeast
1 pinch (2 g) caraway
1 whole egg
half a teaspoon (6 g) of sugar
1 pinch (7 g) of thick grain salts

Preparation:

Crush 20 g of yeast, add three teaspoons of white soft flour, 1/2 dl of lukewarm water and half a teaspoon of sugar. Mix all together in a dense liquid substance and leave the yeast attachment to increase its volume by more than once.

Prepare a mixture made from white flour, lukewarm water, salt and yeast adder, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the dough becomes smooth and not too firm (hands should not touch).

Cover the dough and let it rise in the container, where we cooked it, for a time that the volume of the dough is once bigger.

Sprinkle the dough on a fried baking dish, spread it in hand with a hand in the size of 30 cm in diameter, lower it to a thickness of 1 to 2 cm and reduce the thickness towards the edge of the thickness. The dough should not touch the sides of the baking tray, since the edge of the cake must be lower than the center.

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