Today we celebrate Easter in my son’s kidergarden. I was asked to bring few eggs, but I just had to put them somewhere. So I baked this basket But while I was baking it, 2 eggs of 5 were eaten by my children, so I have to put candies to look basket pretty

25 g fresh or 2 tsps dried active yeast

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup milk

1 egg

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 cup oil

4 cup flour

1 egg for greasing the dough

Mix milk with water. Pour two spoons of that mixture into a glass, add yeast and leave for a few minutes. Mix egg, water with milk, oil, salt and sugar in the bowl. Slowly add flour. After adding flour make the dough until it’s soft and elastic. Leave it until it doubles it’s size. After that make for a while and form rollers. For making a basket you will need a bowl (glass and ovenproof). Wrap with foil the outside of the bowl. Turn the bowl upside down and form the basket. Make it the same way the baskets are made. Now form the brim of your basket. Draw the bowl on a graseproof paper. Make three long rollers of the dough and make a plait. Lay the plait on the drawn circle. Now form three rollers more and make another plait. It’ll be the handle of your basket. Lay this plait over the diameter of your bowl. After forming all basket parts grease them with egg yolk and bake until they’re gold. Leave it and let the basket get cold. Stick all parts together with toothpicks.

Notes: I halved the recipe and use 0,5 liter glass bowls. It was enough for one basket.

Source: Na Miotle

At last I found bread that my hubby really enjoyed eating it Yeah… For long time I baked only bread without the crust. But now I have big hopes that we will make a break with it and start baking this potato bread. By the way, the taste of this bread is slightly similar to “švilpikai”

(2 small loaves or 1 kg loaf)

500 g superior grade flour

1 tsp salt

15 g butter

7 g active dry yeast

250 g cold mashed potatoes

about 250 g warm water or milk

sunflower oil for greasing baking forms

Pour flour and salt to a bowl, rub in butter, mix in yeast. Put mashed potatoes and rub in the flour. In the middle make a hole and pour water just to make soft and quite sticky dough. On the floured surface knead the dough till it becomes smooth and tensile. Form a ball and put it in the oiled big bowl. Cover with the oiled cling film and let rise in the warm place for an hour or till the dough will double. Take out the dough on the litely floured surface and punch a few times. Knead untill the dough will be smooth and tensile. Grease with the oil baking tins. Devide the dough in halves, form loaves. Put them in baking tins, cover with oiled cling film and let stand for 30 minutes or till the dough will rise. Bake in 230°C preheated oven 10 minutes, then low down the heat to 200°C and bake for 20-25 minutes more or till the bread will brown. Knock the loaves bottom. If you hear hollow sound – it’s ready.

Notes: I prepared dough in bread machine. Then took the dough, kneaded a little bit, formed a loaf and put it to bread machine form just without mixers. Left to rise for an half-an-hour, then baked about 40-50 minutes.

Source: Mary Berry. Klasikinė virtuvė (2005)

Very good snack. Kids came from the kindergarden and ate only these sticks till none was left. I had to hide some for photosession. I baked them already two times. The first time I rolled sticks in sesame seeds, but the next day I had joy cleaning all house with vacuum-cleaner from the seeds The next time I put sesame seeds inside the dough and it was more practical and the taste didn’t differ very much.

(20-22 sticks)

250 g flour

5 g dry active yeast

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsps. paprika

175 ml warm water

25 g sesame seeds (if you want to roll sticks in sesame you gonna need 25 g sesame seeds more)

Sift the flour, salt and paprika. Put yeast, sesame seeds and water. Knead the dough and let rise for an hour in warm place. Then on the floured surface form from the dough 15 x 30 cm rectangular. Cut dough in about 1cm thickness sticks. If you want to roll sticks in the sesame, now you have to do it. Overwind the sticks and put on the floured (or lined with the baking paper) baking tray. Cover and let rise for 20 minutes. Bake in 220°C preheated oven for 8 minutes.

Source: Школа гастронома 2010-03 (149)