Δαχτυλιά. Πηγή: Στάλω Λαζάρου
Dahtylies have a long, narrow shape and are divided into parallel pieces so that each one can be cut more easily and evenly.
Name - Recipe
Κυπριακό σπιτικό ψωμί.
A Cypriot traditional home-made bread.
20 kg of flour
Sourdough (for 1 loaf)
2 tsp ground mastic
2 tsp mahleb
2 tsp nutmeg
8 litres of water (about a bucket until the bread is firm)
2-3 glasses of oil (vegetable oil)
Take the sourdough and add the water and the flavours. Slowly add the flour and alternately add the oil and knead (rub with your hands). Knead. Let it proof. Cut into pieces and shape with a rolling pin. Shape the dahtylies with the knife and leave for an hour and a half to proof. Bake in a wood-fired oven for 1 hour.
Baking (preferebly in a traditional oven).
Sourdough: old sourdough that you have saved, a piece of small sourdough (≈250 g), which you renew. Heat about half a cup of water and add it to the sourdough. Add enough flour for one loaf of bread, as much as needed, and knead. Let it proof' until the following day.
Wood-fired oven: put wood and light a fire in the oven until it turns white. Bring the charcoal out with the special shovel, wipe the oven clean, and bake (put the dahtylies bread in).
Functional and symbolic role
In the old days people used to make it much more often because they wouldn't buy the bread, but they would make it at home.
Additional information and bibliography
Oral testimony: Panagiota Savva, 65 years old from Agios Ioannis Agrou. Recording: Elena Savva.
Elena Savva, Marina Constantinou
Προζύμι για την παρασκευή των δαχτυλιών.
Δαχτυλιές και άλλα κουλούρια σε τσέστο, πριν το ψήσιμο. Άδεια δημοσίευσης: Κατερίνα Μηνά-Καρεκλά.
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