As promised:
Rosca de Reyes, Three Kings Bread, Mexican Epiphany Bread, (06 January Bread).
Only made it once before back in 2011 according to my records. I kept the formula but without any notes and made up the dough while I tried to remember which book the original idea and method came from. Was it a Spanish cookbook or a Mexican? Tracked it down to “Mexican Cookery” by Lourdes Nichols. First serious Mexican cookbook I ever bought back in about 1984 daarn in Shepherds Bush when we lived on Holland Road.
Anyway I rewrote the dough recipe but, having done a lot more enriched doughs since then, I think it could do with a few more adjustments.
Still I don’t think there will be much left of this one …
That looks beautiful – very twelfth night-y. Controversy in our house – Fred says it’s the fifth and I say it’s the sixth…
Sorry Fred. 12th Night is Epiphany. Epiphany is 06 January. Take it from an altar boy (retired)
he’s been listening to the vicar at the end of the road…
Our chum (Son of Vicar) insists that all decorations are down before 12th Night – i.e. on the 5th.
In the early 80s I was living in Sinclair Road (other side of the tracks), perhaps we elbowed each other grabbing a no. 12 bus or fighting on to the tube…
You want a slice of my Rosca de Reyes you play by my rules!
I probably blew smoke in your face on the Central Line. We had a friend forced onto public transport one night for some reason who let three trains go by waiting for one with a smoking car not realising that smoking had been banned a couple of years previously.