Pogacha (Po-Gotcha) - Celebratory Bread

Ingredients

25 grams dry yeast (3 ½ envelopes of "Fleischmann’s ¼ oz. Active Dry Yeast" packages)
2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons + 1/4 teaspos of sugar, for the dough
4 tablespooons + 1/4 teasps of oil, for the dough
1 1/2 tablespoons of sesame seeds, dried
1 tablespoon oil, used for sesame seeds to stick

Preparation

1
Combine yeast, sugar, salt and 1/2 cup lukewarm water in small bowl - let stand 15 minutes.
2
Put the flour in a large bowl; make a well in the flour and add oil and yeast mixture. Mix until dough leaves sides of bowl. Add additional flour if dough is too sticky.
3
Divide dough into 6 to 8 balls (personal preference). Inside of a round, 8 inch baking pan, put the dough balls one next to another, forming a flower; leave the dough to double in size – about 20 to 30 minutes.
4
Smooth oil over each ball of dough and arrange the sesame seeds on top of each ball.
5
Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about an hour.
6
Cool on wire racks.

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About

This is a celebratory bread that Macedonians (and other Balkan peoples) use to celebrate weddings, Saints patron days, baptisms, etc. I made this a few days ago for the reason that it was my grandmother's Saint's Day, St. Dimitri.

Note: I didn't use sesame seeds this time because my one year old loves this bread, but I am afraid that she might choke on a seed. :)

Yield:

12.0

Added:

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 9:49am

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