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250 grams (white) bread flour
1/2 sachet dried yeast (3.5g)
a pinch of salt
20 ml of olive oil
150 ml water
1 free-range egg
1 raisin
Exactly one week before Easter it is Palm Sunday. In the big cities in there might not be Palm Sunday processions anymore but in large parts of the Netherlands, especially in the by origin Catholic Limburg and Brabant is the celebration of Palm Sunday still a beloved tradition.
Today we show all children who like to make a traditional Palm Sunday stick how to do it. We start by baking the bread rooster.
Place flour and salt in a big mixing bowl.
Add half the sachet of dried yeast to it.
Make a little well in the flour and pour in the water.
Finaly add the olive oil to the mixture as well.
Beat with the mixer all ingredients into a coarse dough.
Knead it by quickly by hand and let it rise for 1 hour.
Model the bread dough into a rooster shape.
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
Cut a cockscomb in the rooster's head and also cut a tail.
Prick an eye hole into the head with a chopstick.
Beat the egg frothy with the help of a whisk.
Brush the frothy beaten egg onto the dough rooster.
Place the rooster on a baking tray lined with baking parchment, press the raisin into the eye socket.
Bake the bread in 20 - 25 minutes golden brown, it should sound hollow when tapped underneath.
The bread rooster looks pretty and it smells delicious too!
Tomorrow we show you how to attach the rooster to the Palm Sunday-stick. See you tomorrow!