Shopping list
55g butter
400g white bread flour T65
75g caster sugar
180ml semi-skimmed milk
8g yeast (dried action yeast)
4g salt
½ organic egg, beaten +
½ organic egg, for brushing the bread
To serve
fresh butter and various flavours of jam
Today you'll find the recipe for baking a Duivekater on snazzie. A Duivekater is a sweet white flatbread (traditionally baked for Christmas), but it's also often eaten at Easter or Pentecost. It's not difficult to make; it just needs to rise twice. So be patient!
Bake the dough in a Dutch oven, then it keeps its round shape. In the original recipe (somewhere dating back to Roman times!), this bread is baked on the baking sheet, in a rectangle, but this modern method is really easy and gives a very good result!
How to bake a Duivekater
Melt the butter slowly, on low heat.
Place the remaing ingredients all in the mixing bowl.
Add the melted butter to the mixing bowl as well.
Let the mixer knead the dough for 5 minutes.
Place the dough in a clean bowl.
Cover the dough with a warm, damp cloth.
Set the bowl aside for 2 hours in room temperature, or until the dough has doubled in volume
Sprinkle the mat lightly with flour.
Take the dough ot of the bowl.
Flatten the dough on the baking mat.i
Press the edge all around inwards.
Press a sheet of baking paper into the baking pan, shape the dough into a round loaf and place it in the pan with the fold side down
Place the dough into the Dutch Oven.
Cover the Dutch Oven with the lid.
Let the dough rise for another 1½ - 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 190°C and fetch the beaten egg
Unfortunately I made a mistake because the egg-brushing comes first!
Brush the bread lightly with half the egg.
Cut a pattern into it, about a half centimeter deep.
Cover the Dutch Oven with the lid, bake the bread for 20 minutes.
Then remove the lid and bake the bread for 10 -15 minutes more.
Remove the pan from the oven when the bread is golden brown.
Allow the Duivekater to cool completely on a wire rack.
Cut the Duivekater in pretty thin slices.
Serve the bread with butter and jam, in various flavours.
Wishing you a Happy Easte Day already!