"Tain, Old Serbian Bread" - Free stories online. Create books for kids

Listen to your mother, she knows why she is talking something to you ...

Preview audio:

storyj.mp/adtbkwjmp2pc

Tain is a traditional Serbian bread made from a specific mixture of rye and white flour, which could last a long time.

Tain means ration. Each Serbian soldier carried with himself daily ration of 800 grams of bread.

The fact that the bread bag was an obligatory part of the uniform also testifies to how sacred this bread was for the Serbian soldier. Tain was the only way for a Serbian soldier to survive all the hardships and food shortages during the war.

According to the story, Aleksa Zdravković, a soldier who took part in the Balkan wars and the World War I , was protected by bread during all the years of the war.

Legends behind this bread...

Aleksa, my son, you must not to eat the first ration of bread you received, but to keep it as an amulet.

Aleksa did like his mother told mu to do. He kept his first ration of bread, and carried it as an amulet. The amulet guarded him and no bullets ever touched him.

The first Tain of Aleksa Zdravkovic, which he received back in 1912, is kept as an exhibit at the Ponisavlje Museum in Pirot.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

260 g rye flour, 110 g wheat flour, 2 flat teaspoons salt, 1/4 teaspoon dry yeast, 375 ml water

Preparation:

Bread is prepared 24 hours. If we started the preparation at 9 in the morning, we will mix the bread at 9 in the evening, and we will finish it at 9 in the morning the next day.

In a bowl with flour, add salt and yeast, and stir. Add water and whisk the dough with a spoon. It will be liquid at the beginning, and later during mixing it will become thicker. Form the ball with wet hands, place it in a clean bowl and cover with plastic wrape.

leave it to rest for 12 hours, then knead the dough in a bowl by hand, return the plastic foil and let it stand for the next 12 hours.

Transfer the dough to a floured work surface, then shape it into a round loaf using wheat flour.

Sprinkle baking tin with a flour, then put a loaf in the middle, flour it a little on top, cover and let it rest for the next 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 220 ° C.

Cover the mold with aluminum foil and place it in a hot oven. Bake the bread under the foil for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for another 15-20 minutes at 200 ° C.

Encourage this author

LIKE
COMMENT