Pinca
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Pinca is a delicious traditional sweet bread originally from Dalmatia and Istria, which is typically prepared for Easter in Croatia.
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Ingredients
- 2.2 lb cake flour (or pastry flour)
- 3 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 8 oz sugar
- 2 packets vanilla sugar
- Grated rind of a lemon
- Grated rind of an orange
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 3 oz vegetable shortening
- 10 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups milk
- Pinch salt
Instructions
- Heat up ½ cup (100 ml) of milk, add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of flour.
- Mix those ingredients and add the yeast. Let it rest for a bit.
- Mix 3 eggs and 2 egg yolks until obtaining a foamy mixture.
- Add sugar, vanilla sugar, and mix all the ingredients until obtaining a homogeneous mixture.
- Add the grated rinds of the lemon and orange and mix everything
- In a saucepan, melt the shortening and butter on low heat.
- Add the mixture of eggs and sugar into the flour and stir everything slowly.
- Add the melted fat while stirring the mixture constantly.
- Add a pinch of salt and yeast and mix the ingredients.
- Start topping up the milk. Stir everything up.
- Leave the mixture in a warm place until its volume doubles.
- Then, knead it again and divide it into four balls of equal size.
- Place the balls of dough on a baking sheet. Let them rest for a bit.
- Preheat the oven to 300 F (150˚C).
- Cut the dough from the middle towards the three or four corners.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- While the pincas are baking, make the syrup out of ¼ cup (50 ml) of water and 1 tablespoon of sugar.
- Mix the ingredients and after 30 minutes of baking, coat each pinca with syrup.
- Sprinkle the pincas with sugar and then bake them for another 10 minutes.
- Once the pincas are baked, let them cool before cutting and serving.
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