I can´t believe I found this recipe while randomly browsing facebook!  This is something that I will definitely try, I am looking for it for a while now. These was a staple food in our school days, with some form of yoghurt. I remember going home from school (that was quite far away), walking mind you 😀 and not being taken by mom or dad with the car (haha the good old days) and whenever I had some pocket money, I bought one of these, or the “covrig sarat”. The Covrig Sarat is salted pretzel, but of a strange, semi hard consistency, and a bit chewy but in a good way with a solid amount of slightly elastic salty parts. Oh my, those were really good. I haven´t managed to replicate the salted pretzel in consistency yet, still looking for the true recipe 😀 I found nice, soft and lovely pretzels… but not THE pretzel. I surely hope this is “THE” Baton cu Mac, because this would mean the search is over 😀  Wish me luck, I will try this recipe in the weekend!

Baton cu Mac

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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 500 g all purpose flour
• 25 g fresh yeast or 7g dried yeast
• 270 ml warm milk
• 30 g melted butter
• 30 g sugar
• 2 sachets vanilla sugar (optional)
• 1 egg, beaten
• pinch of salt (about 7g)
• poppy seeds (not that much, to put it on top)
• 1 egg yolk and some milk
• 1 tbsp honey + 1 tbsp water

Method

 

1. Mix a bit of warm milk with 1 teaspoon of sugar, the yeast, 1-2 tablespoon of flour and we leave to raise it for a few minutes.
2. Place the dry ingredients in a bowl, (flour, salt, vanilin sugar and sugar) and mix them well
3. Add the yeast mix to the bowl, 1 beaten egg and mix it well with the spatula while adding the rest of the warm milk and melted butter
4. Oil the working surface a bit and kneed the dough a bit. Shape it to a round ball and place it to rest in a warm area for about 1 hour.
5. Kneed it a little again by folding the dough and rolling a dough to form an elongated shape.
6. Cut it to 10-12 equal sizes. Roll the dough to a ball then use a rolling pin to roll it out flat. Round it up from one side, forming long "batons". (sticks?)
7. Place them on the pan and let them rest for another 20 minutes
8. mix one egg yolk with a little bit of milk and brush it on the batons. Add some poppy seeds on top
9. bake it for 20-25 minutes, at 180°C until nice and brown
10. while still hot, brush it with the mix of 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of water. Let it cool.

Notes

the "how to video" is here.