Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, zopf. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. Zopf, usually formed into a simple three-strand braid, is a basic example of this Swiss art. Zopf or Züpfe (Tresse in French and ″treccia"in Italian) is a type of Swiss, Austrian or Bavarian bread made from white flour, milk, eggs, butter and yeast.
Zopf is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Zopf is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook zopf using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Zopf:
- Take 500 Grams Flour
- Get 1.5 Teaspoons Salt
- Take 2 Teaspoons Sugar
- Prepare 60 Grams Butter (soft, room temperature)
- Make ready 15 Grams Yeast
- Take 0.3 Litre Milk
- Get 1 Egg
It is a traditional Sunday bread and it's said it's origin is coming from a custom whereby … Zopf is a traditional Swiss bread consisting of flour, butter, yeast, milk, and eggs. It is characterized by its soft texture and braided appearance, similar to the Jewish bread challah. Traditionally, zopf is prepared during the weekend and consumed on Sundays, usually with butter and fruit jams. Zopf Easily Switzerland's most famous bread, Zopf is enjoyed in all regions of the country, particularly the Emmental, where butter is treasured and added to the bread with abandon, and the braids are often giant and sold by the metre.
Instructions to make Zopf:
- Put the flour in a large bowl, mix with salt, sugar, add the butter in flakes.
- Dissolve the yeast in the milk. Add the liquid to the flour.
- Beat the egg, add about half of it to the flour, set aside the rest.
- Knead until you obtain a smooth, even dough. Cover and let stand in a warm place until double in size (about 1h).
- Separate the dough in half and roll it into 2 equal strands, keep the strands slightly thicker in the middle.
- Braid the strands. I found a sketch here, it's not as difficult as it looks: http://www.instructables.com/image/FV25C5AF6B7T1NX. Put the Zopf on a baking tray.
- Here is an alternative way to braid for the super lazy: put the two strands side by side and simply twist them into each other. Then fold the resulting single, twisted strand in the middle and again twist the two ends into each other.
- Brush the Zopf with the remaining egg. Let stand for another 15 to 20 minutes.
- Put into the cold oven, set the temperature to 220C. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes. If you knock on the underside of the finished Zopf, it should sound hollow.
Zopf made out of two pieces of dough: Cut dough in two pieces of the same size. Cross in the center as shown above. Put top right end to left low and low left end to top right, again as shown above. Then put top left end to right below and low right end to top left. Place in plastic freezer bags and freeze.
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