INGREDIENTS JOKE

1 kg 1/2 of fine
flour 500 G of lump sugar crushed finely with the mortar 75 G of
brewers' yeast 3 spoonfuls with soup (mixture of roasted sesame and
anise) out of seeds 4 or 5 gum arabic grains crushed with 1/2 spoonful
with salt 1 coffee melted butter tea glass 1 water tea glass of flower
of orange tree more or less according to the capacity for absorption
of the flour



PREPARATION

To take
half of the filtered flour first of all, to salt slightly, add 50 G of
brewers' yeast diluted in a little water and to wet until obtaining a
paste a little less consistent that bread dough. To knead
this paste vigorously. To place in a container. To cover,
place close to a heat source and to let raise 2 to approximately 3
a.m.. Once raised paste, to replace it on the table, with it to
  mix the remainder of filtered flour, crushed sugar, the 25 other
grams of brewers' yeast, to add the melted butter, the water of tepid
flower of orange tree, mixed anise and sesame seeds, crushed gum
arabic and to knead vigorously this mixture. To quickly form
then balls of the size of a fist and to flatten them by making them
pass from a palm of the hand to the other in order to approximately
obtain kinds of small round loafs of 1 cm thickness. To lay out,
progressively, on a cover covered with a clean linen. To cover
warmly and leave two to approximately three hours. To check if
the paste is raised, by gently inserting the finger in a roll.
The paste is raised when after having withdrawn the finger, it
regains its shape first. To coat then, rolls of egg yolk to the
brush, to prick �diff�rents places with the fork and to put at the
furnace.