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Vasilopita Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
8 lbs flour
1 lb butter
2 ½ cup sugar
9 eggs
4 Tbsp yeast
2 cups warm milk
orange zest
½ cup orange juice

Flavored water
Orange peel
1 cinnamon stick
8 cloves
Directions:
Directions:
1. Preheat oven 350 º

2. Melt butter and sugar

3. In a bowl, stir yeast with warm milk, cover w/ plastic until foams

3. In a bowl
Beat eggs
Add butter with sugar mixture

4. In a large bowl
Add flour
Add butter/sugar/egg mixture and mix
Add orange juice
Add yeast/milk
Knead and add as much flavored warm water as needed

5. Cover and let it rise

6. Make a round bread
Place a quarter wrapped in wax paper and then aluminum foil somewhere in the
dough

7. Brush with egg

8. Bake until brown
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
makes about 8-9 breads

 

 

 

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