How to bake cesnica (christmas bread from serbia)🇷🇸

+ 1 tsp salt

Add the yeast to warm milk + 1 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp flour

+1 tbsp sugar

+ 2 tbsp flour

10 mins after. The yeast is activated

Out the melted butter+the egg yolks+the sugar+ the salt. Mix and start adding the flour

Add the yeast. Mix add the rest of the flour. Knead untill dough is smooth an elastic. Leave it to proof for 2 hrs

Cover and Prepare the coin. It has to be silver or gold. I have a gold Australian coin. I don't have a Serbian one!!!!➡️details

There are as many ways to model it as there are families in Serbia. But it always follows certain rules and rituals. Inserting a gold or silver coin.. Making a cross in the middle etc..

Breaking the bread has another ritual. The whole family stand around it and holding it with their hands they turn it three times and then break it and the say 'Christ is born'