Latvian Daily Lives

Ingredients for Latvian Daily Lives

Instructions for Latvian Daily Lives

To prepare the Latvian Daily Lives recipe, please follow these instructions:

Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm water. Irør milk with sugar, salt, cardamom, egg and enough flour (about 2 cups) to a light dough (pandekagetyk dej). Beat until dough is smooth and elastic. Add approximately 3 cups of flour and whip through, the dough should be quite smooth and glossy. Add the melted butter. Whip again to the dough is shiny and smooth. Irør the excess flour until dough becomes stiff. Turn dough out on borpladen which is letstrøget with flour, cover with a bowl and let it rest for 15 minutes.

Knead the dough until it is smooth and satiny. Fill the dough in a forsmurt Bowl, turn dough so that it has a greased top. Cover the dough with a tea towel and let it raise to double size. Banking the dough down and let it again raise to double size. Turn dough out on borpladen which is letstrøget with flour, shape dough into two braided bread or to a pretzel-shape (pretzel form). Butter the surface with the beaten egg and almond splitterne, bake in a 170-degree warm oven for about an hour.
Be careful not to over bake the bread if you can enjoy soft and facilitates klægt bread. When you take the finished bread out of the oven is sprinkled it with flourmelis