(Chesnitsa Christmas bread)

Ingredients:
1kg flour
30g fresh yeast
7dl milk
1dl oil
2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 egg yolk

Procedure:
Heat the milk until it is lukewarm. Add sugar, yeast and 1 teaspoon of flour and
let it rise. Meanwhile sift the flour into a large bowl and add salt.
When the yeast has fermented, pour it into the bowl with flour, add oil and
knead the dough well. Cover the bowl with a dishcloth and let the dough rise
for about half an hour.
Reknead the dough and leave it for fifteen minutes. In the meantime, grease a
baking pan. Roll out the dough and cut out circles with a glass, grease both
sides with some oil and place them in the pan. A variation: Instead of rolling
out the dough, you can make medium-size balls. Make sure you put a coin in
one.
Beat the egg yolk using a fork and spread it over. Put some decorations made
of dough if you like.
Bake it for 50 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees Celsius.

Nikola Popovi
PH Obrenovac
Serbia