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New Year's bread or pitta (called also vassilopitta).
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A traditional sourdough Cypriot bread (and rusks) made using chickpea foam (aquafaba), which requires a lengthy process with many stages.
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Easter buns. Galena were made in certain places, mainly in Paphos, and were made with sugar and milk.
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Christmas bread. Genopitta was round shaped, slightly larger than bread and decorated with small leaves, small crosses, etc.
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The characteristic of glistarkes is their round shape and the multiple intersections of dough strips. The way in which the strips are interlaced is often reminiscent of weaving of textiles or baskets…
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In villages, when preparing bread for the family, women would also prepare kafkalies so as to always have some kind of bread in the house.
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Recipe for kneading koullouria (bread) and rusks, using animal or vegetable fat. The same dough was used to make avkotes, Easter bread or pastries of various shapes with a red egg in the middle.
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"... cut a piece of the dough, roll it over the sesame seeds which you have placed on a towel and give it an oblong shape. Create Easter dolls, bags (baskets), the sarakosti (Lent) figure and…
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Very small buns made to be thrown to the bride and groom at the wedding ceremony during the 'dance of Isaiah'.
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The bun was decorative on the wine gourd used to invite people to a wedding.
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Rusks cut in cubes and offered as a treat to guests by expecting mothers and also at weddings and at Christmas.
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A Christmas almond butter biscuit, which used to be offered to wedding guests. The dough for kourabiedes consists of flour, roasted almonds, sugar and various spices, such as cinnamon.
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Miliá (apple tree) mé pouliá (birds) apó zymári (dough). A symbolic game that was played during the wedding festivities, associated with both kneading and fortune telling.
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A recipe from Rizokarpason regarding a type of very thin and crispy pitta containing seeds from the šinnos plant (Pistacia lentiscus).
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Baked products with sesame: bread, koullouria, gennópites, lehouzoúthkia, koúmoulla and others.
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The Holy Water from the feast of the Holy Cross (14 September) is used for the preparation of the sourdough starter. The initial starter is formed by combining this holy water and some flour… it is…
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Traditional Christmas baking includes “hristópsomo”, “gennópita” and “koulloúri” in various shapes and with different names
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After making the dough, the koulourka are given various shapes, such as oblong, rings, round but also avgotes, vatrahakia, zembilouthkia, stavrokoulloura etc for festive occasions.
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These thin pittas are crispy like rusks. In addition to tremithia (terebinth seeds), they may also contain raisins.
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A type of sesame Christmas bun, in the shape of a small frog.