How delicious will be your wedding loaf made by yourself, depends not only on the correct recipe and the quality of the products, but also on your ability to handle the buttery dough. Therefore, if you do not have such an experience, then try to "fill your hand" on buns and pies in advance.
So, we need:
- up to 8 glasses of wheat flour. For a good result, the flour must be sifted with a fine sieve. Otherwise, the dough will not turn out lush and airy, and in the photo the loaf will look pathetic.
- a bag of dry yeast. It contains about 20 g of product.
- half a cup of vegetable oil. Naturally, refined. Some housewives prefer to use melted cream, but here, as they say, the taste and color ...
- half a glass of milk. Do not mix milk with water or take only water. In milk, yeast behaves much more correctly and it will be easier to bake your own hands with your own hands.
- 10 eggs are medium in size, not small. If you can buy village eggs, do not be stingy.
- 2/3 cups of sugar. It is possible less. Depends on how much you wish to sweeten the dough. Previously, in the wedding tradition with the caravan , almost unleavened bread took part. Today, loaves are baked and salted, and sweet, and with candied fruits, and cinnamon. Although, perhaps, you need to consider that the ritual uses salt, which does not mix too much with sugar.
- half a tablespoon of salt. We advise you to take a small one.
Recipe wedding caravan with photo
Yeast pour into warm milk, gently stirring until completely dissolved. Separate yolks from proteins. Yolks need to grind well with sugar and white. And very carefully pour the milk-yeast mixture into them. Mix again until smooth.
Take deep dishes. It is most convenient to cook the dough in a wooden or ceramic cup. Measure 6 cups of flour into it. Distribute exactly on the cup and palms to make a depression in the middle, which should look like a volcano crater.
In the cavity pour out a mixture of yolks and yeast, oil, depending on what you have chosen. In the last place we spread the whipped whites into strong foam. And without sudden movements, gently knead the dough.
As soon as we get an elastic mass, turn the cup on the table, pre-sprinkled with flour. And properly we munch the dough, without forgetting to regularly sprinkle it with flour, sifted through a sieve. This work is quite heavy. That is why for Russian wedding ceremonies in ancient times kneading dough for a man. Be sure to happily married. It was believed that through the dough he passed on the positive energy of his family experience.
And now, after half an hour, our dough no longer sticks to your hands and it becomes smooth and very pleasant to the touch. We return it to our cup (it needs to be washed and lightly oiled). And leave the dough, covering with a towel or tightening the cup with a film, for an hour and a half in a warm place for lifting. As you can see, it is not difficult to knead the basis for a wedding caravan with your own hands.
Again, munch the dough and divide it into three parts. Dough for decorating the loaf is put aside. From one piece we form round bread, as in the photo, and from the second plait we pigtail or twist. We spread the loaf on the baking tray, covered with paper, and around the base we press the pigtail. Now it's time to think about how to decorate a loaf.
Decoration from a dough for a loaf
The decor of our wedding bread can be very diverse. But if you look at the wedding traditions of the world , you can see that some ornaments from the dough symbolize the same thing in different parts of the world. Grapes represent well-being, spikelet - fertility, swans - fidelity, and roses - love. In fact, nobody restricts you in choosing a decor. You can choose the traditional option and repeat one of the caravan decorations in the photo. Or come up with something special, making an unusual design.
