Sitto's Arras Recipe
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Ingredients: 5 pounds all purpose flour
1 pound butter for dough
1 stick butter for hands while mixing dough
2 packages yeast
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons Mahleb/Shumra seasoning mix (3 parts ground cherry pit to 1 part ground fennel seed)
1 quart milk
½ cup warm water to proof yeast
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Directions:--Mix salt, Mahleb and flour in a large bowl
--Heat milk and 1 pound of butter until butter melts
--Mix sugar and yeast and proof yeast in ½ cup warm (105ºF) water for about 10 minutes. This is probably one of the most important steps in the recipe, use a thermometer to ensure correct temperature of water.
--Make an indentation in the flour and add the proofed yeast
--Add heated milk and butter
--Mix thoroughly by hand then knead until smooth
--Place in a large bowl and cover with plastic wrap and towel to keep warm
--Let rise in a warm place for approximately 2 hours
--Cut into 10 balls and tuck seams to bottom (Roll around in hand to smooth and get seams to bottom)
--Let rise for 30 more minutes
--Roll each ball of dough to approximately 10 inches in diameter
--Stamp dough around the edges and in the center
--Bake in a 500ºF oven for 10 minutes or until golden brown on the bottom. Turn oven to broil to brown top of bread.
--Remove to cooling rack and allow to cool |
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Notes: --From Jane: Sitto always blessed this bread before the first rising and made the sign of the cross in the bread dough. This bread was usually a holiday bread, made for Easter but also served at Christmas.
--From Jane: This bread is particularly good split and toasted.
--From Tim: In bringing this cookbook together I've been researching some of the ingredients. The seasoning mix above was originally listed as Mahleb in one recipe and Shumra in another. I've found that it is both, Mahleb is the dried cherry pit that is ground up and Shumra is fennel seed that is ground up. I have changed the ingredient to Mahleb/Shumra to reflect this. If this is still not correct, please let me know.
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