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A Filipino breakfast isn’t complete without bread or pandesal, as we locally call it. If you’re a foreigner, you should know that preparing bread for breakfast is a centuries-old tradition in the Philippines; whether you’re staying at luxurious hotels or sleeping over at a friend’s house, you’re bound to be served pandesal sooner or later.
To fellow Filipinos who are reading this, I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s made a pandesal run early in the morning to put bread on the breakfast table or to eat while heading off to work. We literally can’t have breakfast without it!
From Pan de Regla to Pan de Coco and Ensaymada, all our traditional bread recipes are undoubtedly appetising and comforting to boot. However, if you’re looking for the OG pandesal that started it all, then a throwback to our country’s Spanish era is in order — because the iconic Spanish Bread still takes the cake for the most craved-for pandesal to this day! *pushes Ensaymada to second place*
If you want to try your hand in making this golden, buttery, and sugary pastry for yourself, here’s how to bake Spanish Bread at home!
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Before we begin, allow me to give you a few tips on baking with an oven. First, you must bake one sample in the oven before placing a whole batch of pastry dough inside it. This way, you’ll know if you’ve understood the instructions correctly or not, in case the tested pastry dough comes out badly.
Second, if the first sample comes out perfectly, feel free to place as many dough rolls as your oven can accommodate; but also be sure that there’s enough space in between rolls when the dough expands. You’ll just waste more electricity if you place too few rolls on the oven tray, forcing you to bake more batches. That said, the ingredients below can make 20 pieces of Spanish Bread!
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I know these steps require a lot more patience than your average cupcake recipe, but you’ve got all the time in the world to try baking Spanish Bread while Luzon is still on lockdown. And you wouldn’t just be sating your family’s Spanish Bread cravings in the morning, but you’d also be filling your home with that drool-inducing, hypnotising Spanish Bread aroma. We can already imagine it!
Featured image credit: Marikina Bakery | Official Facebook page.
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