Tsourekia
I’ve been making tsourekia for years and when a recipe is tried and tested and good, I do not see any reason why changing it. However, things do happen in the kitchen. Holy Thursday is the day we dye our Easter eggs and do most of the baking, so as usual, yesterday I dyed [...]
Vassilopita Tsoureki is a brioche kind of Greek Sweet Bread made for New Year’s Day. After midnight and the change of the Year, the head of the family cuts this bread (or cake). Whoever finds the coin is considered to be lucky during the next year. If you would like to learn more about [...]
Tsourekia is a brioche type of sweet bread which is braided and is part of our Easter and Christmas traditions. These are the tsourekia I made last year. I made them with chestnut filling and glazed them with chocolate. The chestnut filling is optional but it’s an addition that surely adds to the wonderful [...]
Tsoureki is a kind of sweet bread which we did not use to make in Cyprus, or at least my mother didn’t, so this is something I have learned after coming to Greece. The other day I was looking through my old note book with recipes and I found this magazine clipping which I had [...]
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