Substances
To acquire two small threads or one giant
Flour, 500 g
Milk, 50 cc
Eggs, 4 (3 for the dough and 1 to color it earlier than placing it within the oven)
Sugar, 100 g
Nice salt, 1 degree teaspoon
Butter, 100 g
Yeast in bread, 50 g (one dice)
The zest of ½ grated lemon
Orange blossom or vanilla essence, one tablespoon.
Almendras,150 g
Custard cream
Preparation
– Combine ¾ cup of heat (not sizzling) water and two teaspoons of sugar in a bowl.
– Add the yeast dice, with out mixing.
– Cowl the bowl with a small saucer and depart it in a heat place for the yeast to ferment, dissolve and double in quantity (about quarter-hour.)
– Sift the flour along with the salt and put it on the counter within the form of a crown.
– In a bowl, combine: the eggs frivolously crushed with a fork, the milk, the sugar, the lemon zest, the vanilla or orange blossom essence and the already dissolved yeast.
– Place this combination little by little within the heart of the flour and take all the things with a fork first after which together with your arms.
– Add the butter in small items and knead till you acquire a really smooth dough.
– Cowl the dough with a material and let it rise till it doubles in quantity (about an hour).
– Degas the dough by kneading it, hitting it together with your fists and hitting it in opposition to the desk.
– Separate the dough into two buns.
– Place every bun on a greased and floured baking sheet.
– Flatten every bun till it’s round and about 6 cm excessive.
– With a cookie cutter about 8 cm broad, take away the central a part of the dough.
– Butter the surface of the cookie cutters and depart them within the facilities.
– The central holes of the thread may also be made together with your arms.
– Let the threads rise till they double their quantity.
– Brush with crushed egg, beautify with the pastry cream, coarsely chopped almonds and place (one by one) in a reasonable oven till golden.
– Take away the cookie cutter.
Beforehand, the Easter bagel was ready with 3 or 4 hard-boiled or embellished eggs on prime.
What you are able to do is bake it with hard-boiled eggs positioned in beforehand made holes within the dough and when the bagel is prepared and chilly, exchange them with embellished or chocolate eggs.
