Sfințișori/ Mucenici (Romanian Traditional Desert for 9th march)

Hello dears,

I am very happy to see you again with a new recipe.

Spring is coming!

The trees sprout and bloom, the air smells of nature and everything around it seems to take on color.

For me, spring means: snowdrops, martisoare and Saints / Martyrs.

These are some traditional rolls that are made in romania for the 9th of march.

Because I am from Botoșani, of course I come to you with a recipe for Moldovan martyrs.

I adore them and I hope you like them too.

I leave here the filmed recipe, and below you have all the details.

For 16 rolls you need:

one kg of cake flour (good quality)
14 g of dry yeast
150 g of sugar
600 ml of lukewarm milk
a drop of vanilla essence
a pinch of salt
150 g butter at room temperature
4 yolks
an egg to grease
optional: orange / lemon drop

Grease them with honey and powder them with walnuts
or

You can syrup them with a syrup made of 4 tablespoons of sugar and 100 ml of water.

We put the milk on the fire to heat it, we add the vanilla essence (the milk must be warm, not hot, otherwise it will kill the yeast).

Mix the flour with the sugar and yeast.

Rub the yolks with the salt powder.

We put them over the flour and mix. Then lightly pour the milk over half the amount of flour. Mix until all the flour is incorporated and you get a crust that you knead for 5-10 minutes.

Then add the butter, one tablespoon at a time.

When we have obtained a soft and elastic dough, we put it in a bowl greased with oil, cover it with a towel and let it rise in a warm place. (until it doubles in volume, at least an hour).

Divide the dough into 16 pieces. Afterwards, each piece will be divided into two.

We form the saints. We stretch each piece and form a string that we weave.

Let the saints sit in the pan for another 20 minutes to rise.

Preheat the oven and leave the martyrs for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.

Grind the walnuts, grease the saints with honey or syrup them and powder them with walnuts!

Good appetite!

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See you next Wednesday!

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Don’t forget to ring the bell and share it with the person you would like to enjoy!