Flower bread

Name: Flower bread
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour; 1/2 cup cold milk; 2 tablespoons sugar; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 large egg; 2 teaspoons dry yeast; Raisings

Mufeeda @cook_17361783

Kaduna

#bakeabread
What took me so long? I've been trying to get something new in mind, what type of bread to bake, something unique, something different, so I managed to come up with this "flower bread". Even though it's not a perfect flower but am happy I did this, I bet it'll get better with another trial.

Mufeeda @cook_17361783

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Ingredients

1 hour

3 servings

2 cupsall purpose flour
1/2 cupcold milk
2 tablespoonssugar
1/4 teaspoonsalt
1large egg
2 teaspoonsdry yeast
Raisings

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Steps

1 hour

1

Heat butter in a pan, turn off the heat, add milk and mix until thoroughly dissolved.
2

In another bowl, mix flour, yeast, sugar and salt.
3

Add in the milk mixture, break in the egg and mix well, the dough will be very sticky, knead the dough until it makes a smooth round ball.
4

Cover the dough and let it rise for an hour until it doubles it size.
5

Deflate and knead by hand for 1-2 minutes and cover again, fold the dough for a another minute. Sprinkle some flour on cutting board, transfer the dough into the dusted cutting board.
6

Roll out a portion into a long string and flatten the top with the thumb and arrange on a greased and flour dusted baking tray.
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Cut the edge edges of the string carefully with a knife.
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Arrange the strings adjacent to one another and pile up the remaining strings to form a bunch of flower.
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Place 3 flattened strings on the board and braid them.
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Place the braid horizintally on the bunch of flower to form a ribbon holding the flower.
11

Decorate with raisins, brush with egg using a pastry brush. Preheat oven to 180°C. Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
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Remove from oven, let it cool for 5 minutes before eating.