• Easter Bread

      We are in the Christmas season, in many places in the world sweet breads are made, breads that we only see during this season

      In chile there is something called “pan de pascua”, a bread that I hate for no specific reason, so it is also a saturated market, everyone makes that bread and that led me to look for alternatives that were not in panettone as it is a very difficult bread to make

      Today I was trying 3 recipes
      Rosca de reyes, Stollen and pan dulce argentino

      Each one had its process, its interpretation and a thought that marked them

      From the rosca de reyes I learned that sometimes we can make our mistakes look happier as the cream filling was cut and I opted to improve its outer aesthetics

      From the stollen I learned that sometimes you have to take a pause
      I had the stollen dough and next to it I was shaping the marzipan for filling, once I finished I realized that the sugar and flour had mixed on the counter, I couldn’t recover them and while picking up I said “I don’t know where the sugar starts and where the flour ends.”
      A phrase that invoked a soliloquy, a reflection of where the work ends and my life begins, where the guy who makes bread ends and where I begin

      Finally the sweet bread reminded me that often good cooking does not come from expensive and extravagant ingredients
      Although it does not have the honeycomb or the crumb that characterizes the panettone, it is a bread that requires work and dedication,
      In this case I made a variant, I changed the classic preferment for a chocolate one, I changed the candied fruit for nuts soaked in rumtopf liqueur and chopped chocolate, finishing with a cocoa and rumtopf glaze that served to glue more nuts on top

      And if you’re wondering what spice mix I used or if you’ve been looking for a base to give it that characteristic flavor of Christmas breads for a long time
      I use a variant of the Chinese 5 spice mix
      50g anise powder
      10g star anise
      10g whole cumin
      10g cinnamon
      7g cloves
      2g whole black pepper
      The whole spices are heated in a frying pan to activate their oils and then ground together with the anise powder
      This will provide a good flavor base for Christmas breads or general cooking

      Translated from Spanish
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      Antonio Salvador Moreno Carretero, Lana Mihajlović and 2 others
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