Monday, August 23, 2010

Croatian Bread Recipe, not the fancy, holiday kind?

Does anyone have a recipe for Croatian bread? Just normal bread, not the fancy holiday kind, just a loaf of bread. It tasted so different, maybe with cornmeal in it? Or something else I just can't nail. Any help would be heartily appreciated.Croatian Bread Recipe, not the fancy, holiday kind?
Pogaca (Farmer's Bread)





1/4 cup shortening


2 pound flour


Salt


2/3 cup yeast cake


1 1/3 cups water





Mix shortening in 1-1/2 pounds flour; add salt and yeast previously dissolved in a little lukewarm water and mix. Knead well, occasionally sprinkling the dough with the remaining flour. Dough should be neither stiff nor soft. Roll the dough out into the size and shape of a round baking dish. Oil or grease and flour the baking dish and place the dough in it. Cover. Let it rise for 15 minutes. Prick with fork, starting 1 inch from the edge and making circles spaced 1 inch from another. If desired, brush with egg yolk. Bake in a hot oven (425 F) about 1 hour. When it is half done, set the oven on moderate.





Serve Pogaca cut into a long narrow strip.Croatian Bread Recipe, not the fancy, holiday kind?
Okrugli Vrsak (Croatian bread):





2 hours 20 min prep


1 loaf





1 1/2 cups butter or oleo


1 lb confectioners' sugar


6 eggs


1/8 teaspoon salt


1 tablespoon vanilla


1 tablespoon almond flavoring


1 lemon, peel grated


4 cups flour


1 tablespoon baking powder


raisins or nuts or mixed fruit or poppy seeds





1. Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, one at a time, and beat well.


2. Add all the flavorings and salt.


3. Add flour and baking powder which you have mixed together, one cup at a time.


4. Mix only long enough to make it creamy.


5. Sprinkle a little flour on raisins or fruit mix if you add them.


6. Or add nuts or poppy seed.


7. Bake in tube pan or loaf pan for 1 hour and 15-25 minutes, or until done, at 325 F.

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