Curd Swet Breads

Food Blogs just pop up like mushrooms! There are so many and so many good ones that sometimes I wonder if there is room for one more. And yet, I try and here I am, hoping to enjoy myself and please you all, foodies and frequent blog readers.

For a few months I've been working on a blog in Portuguese - Cravo e Canela  Uma Cozinha no Brasil. But the fact that I have readers from odder countries make me decide to try to do it in English! I have presented some recipes in English for Bread Baking Day monthly events, and those - like the Curd Sweet Breads - will, probably, be the first recipes to be featured here.

When I saw the Bread Baking Day #40 announcement I set to myself the challenge of participating and show some recipe from my country – Portugal – and from my region – Alentejo! Since it was supposed to bake a bread with curd, I thought that would be nice to bake some Costas de Requeijão. Costas is a typical sweet bread from Alentejo, that can be simple, stuffed with a fruit marmalade or have curd included in the dough.

 Ingredients:

500 g flour
100 g sugar
100 g butter
2 eggs
250 g curd
Biological yeast
4 table spoons of milk
½ tee spoon of cinnamon

In a large bowl, mix the flour, the sugar and the cinnamon. Make a small cavity in the centre and then add the yeast dissolved in slightly warm milk, the butter and the curd in small pieces. Mix carefully with the dry ingredients.  Next, add the eggs, previously battered. Mix the dough until it doesn’t stick to your hands anymore. Live for about an hour in a covered bowl, to grow. Make small breads and take them to the oven (200ºC) for about 15 minutes.

It can be eaten simple, or with jam or cheese. I made a quick strawberry jam to eat with the first coming out from the oven, will I was waiting for the last tray to cook!

Hope you like it!