{"id":21456,"date":"2018-04-01T22:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/?p=21456"},"modified":"2021-04-04T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:30:32","slug":"tsoureki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/2018\/04\/tsoureki\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsoureki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tsoureki-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Tsoureki (2)[3]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tsoureki-23_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Tsoureki (2)[3]\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When we drove through snow- rain to meet with the family on Easter Sunday, I mused if todays Easter weather was colder then on Christmas Eve or not. But good weather or not we had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BhBNCKOHxU1\/?taken-by=hefe_und_mehr\">broad mixture of<\/a> rolls and a greek easter braid with us.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of baking tsoureki I had in mind since a readers question last year. And so I did some research and found the braid in many different forms and different ratios of ingredients. But two ingredients were a stable: Mastix and Mahlep.<\/p>\n<p>Mastix is the resin of the pistachios tree, while mahlep are cherry pits form <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prunus_mahaleb\"><em>Prunus mahaleb<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>While grinding the spices to powder I realized that mahlep has an similar aroma than tonka beans: almond like and very delicious. As always, the flavours of a spiced bread are depending more on the spices then on the aroma of the preferment. But using a preferment is useful anyway, as it helps to strengthens the gluten network as well as improves the shelf life.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed this greek Easter Bread with its fluffy crumb and almond like flavours very much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Tsoureki<\/h1>\n<p>yields 3 small wreaths<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tsoureki-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Tsoureki (1)[3]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Tsoureki-13_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Tsoureki (1)[3]\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>P\u00e2te Ferment\u00e9e<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100g flour Type 550<\/li>\n<li>70g Water<\/li>\n<li>1g Salt<\/li>\n<li>1g fresh yeast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teig<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>P\u00e2te Ferment\u00e9e<\/li>\n<li>400g\u00a0 flour Type 550<\/li>\n<li>210g Milk<\/li>\n<li>50g Egg<\/li>\n<li>9g fresh yeast<\/li>\n<li>5g Salt<\/li>\n<li>2g Mastix<\/li>\n<li>4g Mahlep<\/li>\n<li>60g sugar<\/li>\n<li>100g Butter<!--EndFragment--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix all ingredients for the P\u00e2te fermente and proof it for 1 hour at room temperature. Then put the dough into the fridge for 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Knead all ingredients except sugar and butter for 5 min at slow speed. Then knead 7 min at fast speed. Now add the sugar in small increments and knead until the sugar is incooperated before adding the next sugar. At last add the butter all at once. Knead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/2011\/08\/gluten-entwicklung-und-fenstertest\/\">full gluten development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let rise overnight\u00a0 for one hour temperature plus 1-2 hours in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Divide into 110g pieces and roll into 35 cm long strands. Braid three strands and form a wreath.<\/p>\n<p>Proof for 90 min.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime heat the oven to 210\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Brush the wreath with egg and bake for about 20 min at 210\u00b0C with Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we drove through snow- rain to meet with the family on Easter Sunday, I mused if todays Easter weather was colder then on Christmas Eve or not. But good weather or not we had a broad mixture of rolls and a greek easter braid with us. The idea of baking tsoureki I had in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[97,285,118,452,453,288,402],"class_list":["post-21456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brot","category-besondere-gelegenheiten","tag-butter","tag-ostern","tag-ei","tag-mahlep","tag-mastix","tag-pate-fermentee","tag-zopf"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21559,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions\/21559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}