How to bake a wedding loaf: recipes, ornaments

Wedding is an important event not only for the newlyweds, but also for their relatives. Parents of brothers should take an active part in the celebration. For example, to prepare a loaf for the wedding with your own hands - tasty and beautiful, to meet with the children at the door of the banquet hall. This is a great way to show your concern. If you do not know how to bake a wedding loaf, this article is for you.

Traditions. As it was before

There are a lot of traditions and signs that must be observed throughout the preparation for the wedding. Preparing a wedding caravan is no exception.

Long since the beginning of the ceremony, the parents of the man met the perpetrators of the celebrations in their house and regaled them with bread and salt. This is due to the fact that after the wedding, the young lived in the house of her husband.

Now newly-made families buy their own dwelling, and time is dearly valued, so the tradition has lost its relevance. The caravans began to be treated right in front of the entrance to the restaurant or banquet hall.

The loaf is cooked one day before the ceremony, and the parents themselves must bake it. You also need to prepare an embroidered towel on which it is placed. Do not forget to bring a small container of salt, put it on top of the bread.

Young parents come to the house with joy. One holds a baked gift, the other has an icon in his hands. Parents tell their children farewell words and offer to eat a loaf, pre-dipping it into salt. By a rule, that of the young, who will bite off a bigger piece, will occupy the dominant position in the house.

According to one of the beliefs, after the young people were treated, the groom's mother must hide the loaf - now no one can touch him. If you take him to the church after the celebration as a donation, family life will be happy.

After all the action the groom took the bride in his arms and carried her into the house. They were invited to all the rest. At the groom's house guests were offered light snacks and drinks.

The first recipe for making a loaf

We present to your attention a step-by-step recipe for cooking a loaf. In order to bake this wedding dish at home, you will need:

• flour - 800 g;
• sugar - 5 tbsp.l.;
• milk - 350 ml;
• vegetable or creamy butter - 250 g;
• eggs of chicken - 5 pieces;
• yeast, usual dry - about 10 g;
• salt - 1.5 tsp.

To begin with, prepare the products with which you will make a treat. The total cooking time is about four hours. The loaf is designed for twenty portions.

1. Take milk, several spoons of sugar, yeast and 4 tbsp.spoons of flour. Preheat the milk, but do not bring it to the boil. Add the yeast, sugar, mix everything thoroughly and gradually pour in the flour. Does the mixture look like sour cream? If so, you did everything right - it turned out to be an odor. It should be left for an hour in a warm place.
2. While opara is suitable, do not waste time, keep cooking. Milk the mixture with vegetable or butter, put it on a plate, add sugar and salt. Do not bring to a boil, you just need to warm up the food.
3. Cool the freshly heated mass and forget about it for a while. Check the dough - the opara is ready, if it has increased in size, foam, swelled. In this case, you can proceed to direct mixing.
4. To make it more convenient to mix, transfer the finished spoon into a deep and wide plate. Whisk the chicken eggs, but do not overdo it so as not to destroy the structure, do everything neatly. Leave the yolk for subsequent lubrication of the finished product. In the spoon, add whipped eggs.
5. Pour a few glasses of flour into the dough, mix well. Then pour in a mixture of milk and butter, add the rest of the flour. Stir.
6. We should get a sticky, slightly liquid consistency. About twenty minutes, mix the mass. You can do this with a blender, but best of all with your hands - then you gently and evenly mix the dough.
7. After working on the test, it should become soft and smooth. Cover the bowl with a towel, leave for an hour and a half. Ready-made dough grows several times - real miracles of cooking!
8. Form a large circle. You can use a special form or make a product on a baking sheet, do as you please. Turn on the oven for two hundred degrees. Put the dough in the mold. If you have any decorations for a loaf - it's time to put them on the bread, having previously smeared it with egg yolk.
9. Place the cakes in the oven, hold the temperature at 200 degrees for the first 20 minutes, then bake for 40 minutes at 170. Watch the process carefully. If the top of the loaf burns, cover it with foil.
10. Remove the product from the mold and allow it to cool. That's ready wedding dinner!

How to prepare a loaf, video

The second recipe for a wedding caravan

Another recipe for preparing a festive wedding bread. For this option, the following ingredients will be needed:

• flour - 700 g;
• sugar - 5 tbsp.l.;
• vanilla - 1.5 tsp;
• powdered sugar - 2 tsp;
• milk - 1,5 items;
• vegetable oil or cream - 3 tbsp.l.; Chicken eggs
• - 2 pieces;
• yeast, normal dry - 1.5 pack;
• salt - a few pinch;
• water - 1 tbsp.

So, the process of preparing the loaf:

1. Slightly warmed up milk thoroughly with sugar, oil and salt. Stir in it yeast and flour. Knead until the dough is smooth and elastic. Leave for an hour and a half.
2. After the dough has come, knead it with sharp and strong movements. Then give it a round shape, place on a baking sheet, which is pre-covered with special baking paper. Leave the product for ten minutes, then grease it with egg yolk.
3. Leave the dough for 15 minutes, carefully watch it during this time, do not let bubbles appear, stroke and level it.
4. If you have any decorations made of dough, prepare and lay them out. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
5. Place the product in the oven.
   Down necessarily place a basin or baking tray with cold water. This is necessary to make the baking crisp and not burned.
6. Carefully follow the baking process. Sometimes turn the product so that it is baked smoothly. The time in the oven is about 50 minutes, perhaps less, see the situation.
7. Remove the ready loaf from the oven, put it on the table and let it cool down. After lubricating the product with egg white, then apply all the ingredients sugar powder and vanilla sugar. Done!

Jewelry from the test

Figured patterns for the wedding caravan decorate the product and give it a festive look. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the master class for making ornaments for the loaf.

loaf The decorations can be stitched for twenty minutes before ready or just before putting the baking in the oven. Better not lubricate the figures with egg yolk before baking, otherwise the whole loaf will turn out to be one-color. Lubricate them with water, then the figures will immediately stick to the product.

• Kalina. The obligatory component of the caravan, symbolizes love and wealth. Roll up the large balls, divide them into two parts and form beautiful bunches of the viburnum.
• Scythe. A beautiful and uncomplicated element, means the sun and the brightness of emotions. From the dough blend three sausages of the same length as the circumference of your loaf. At one end, connect, braid the braid and fasten it around the product.
• Wheat. It symbolizes fertility. Form a flagellum, one side should be wider than the other. Put the resulting tourniquet on a treat, shape the tops of the ears with scissors.
• Roses. Flowers of love - a beautiful and original decoration. Slowly roll a few circles, roll the first into a roll, put the next circle around the first, bending the edges. Repeat the procedure, each of the next more and more bending edges. The rose is ready.
• Leaflets of a tree. Mean youth and beauty. Form a diamond from the dough, cut the edges with teeth. With a knife, make lines that look like hollows on the leaves.
  leaves from the dough using the stamp decoration of the loaf for the wedding decoration elements for the loaf
  
  
• Salt. Make a groove for salt while cooking, decorate it with a scythe, leaves or ears of wheat. In the future, the newlyweds, dunking the loaf in the salt shaker, conditionally "eat a pood of salt" and are adjusted to a sweet family relationship.
• Small bird. From the dough thickness of half a centimeter cut a small three-centimeter strip, tie it with a knot. From one edge blur the beak, from the other form the tail. At the very edge of the node, you can make small incisions that will look like the wings of a bird.
• Two dove. As you know, pigeons are a symbol of love. Cut out the figurines of birds, grabbing dough with scissors to form feathers. In place of the eye, place a small pea of ​​black pepper.
• Date of the ceremony or the names of the newlyweds. The original way to surprise the marrying and all present at the wedding guests. From the test, form numbers or letters, in the correct order place them on the loaf.

How to decorate a wedding loaf - video

So, the loaf is ready for a wedding celebration! Do not forget about how to properly serve it young, reinforce your gift with warm words and congratulations, and then this day will forever remain in the memory of the newlyweds and all guests of the holiday.

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