Pogaca (farmers Bread)

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup fat
• 2 lbs plain flour
• salt
• 2/3 cup fresh yeast cake
• 1 1/3 cups water

Recipe

• 1 rub fat in 1-1/2 pounds flour; add salt and yeast previously dissolved in a little lukewarm water and mix.
• 2 knead well, occasionally sprinkling the dough with the remaining flour.
• 3 dough must be neither stiff nor soft.
• 4 roll the dough out into the size and shape of a round baking dish.
• 5 oil or grease and flour the baking dish and place the dough in it.
• 6 cover.
• 7 let it rise for 15 minutes.
• 8 prick with fork, tarting 1 inch from the edge and making circles spaced 1 inch from another.
• 9 if desired, brush with egg yolk.
• 10 bake in a hot oven (425 f) about 1 hour.
• 11 when it is half done, set the oven on moderate.
• 12 serve pogaca cut into a long narrow strip.