Holiday buns March 22 in Orthodox families it is customary to bake "lark" - this is a lean yeast bun. On this day, all the Orthodox celebrate the day of the 40 martyrs of Sevastia. The legend says that on this spring day forty species of birds fly - the souls of dead legionaries who did not renounce Christ. On "Larks", so now called this day, the landladies baked figurines of birds and handed them to children. Children rejoiced and songs, shouting called for spring. This holiday falls on Lent, so the dough should be made without eggs and milk. Cooking "lark" is better with children. They will gladly roll out the dough, sculpt round koloboks and insert raisins. Let this holiday with the baking of "larks" go to a good tradition of your family. Happy Holiday!
Ingredients:- Wheat Flour 500 g
- Sugar 200g
- Yeast, dry 11 g
- Water boiled 300 ml
- Raisin 50g light
- Olive oil 50 ml
- Turmeric 2 g
- Sugar vanilla 2 tsp.
- Salt 1 pinch
- Step 1 For the preparation of "larks" will need: flour, yeast, boiled water sugar, salt, vegetable oil, vanillin, turmeric, raisins for decoration, for lubrication sweet strong tea.
- Step 2 For yeast, combine yeast, warm boiled water, a pinch of sugar, 1 tablespoon of flour.
- Step 3 Prepare sifted flour in a large bowl, pour vanillin, turmeric into it.
- Step 4 In the flour pour the approached spoon, add salt, the remaining sugar. Mix everything well, if necessary, pour in the flour and knead the dough so that it becomes elastic. Roll it with a kolobok and put in a warm place for 40-60 minutes.
- Step 5 When the dough is doubled, roll it into a bundle, and divide it into 40 equal parts.
- Step 6 Roll each piece into bars, about 15 cm long.
- Step 7 Tighten the knot with a knot. On one side of the nodule, we form the bird's head, and on the other - the tail, make a pair of incisions with a knife.
- Step 8 Two highlights to use for the peephole. Insert into the dough is shallow!
- Step 9 Put the birds on the baking tray. Put him in a warm place, so that the "larks" would rise. When the dough is suitable, grease each bird with strong black tea with sugar. Bake in a preheated oven for 25-30 minutes at 180 ° C.
- Step 10 Finished larks remove from the baking sheet, lay on a wooden surface, sprinkle with water, cover with a napkin and leave them for 10-15 minutes.