World Flavors Cookbook

Pan de Muerto Salvadoreño

El Salvador's Day of the Dead sweet bread — a round, orange-scented, sugar-glazed bread made for the Día de los Difuntos altar.

Cuisine: El Salvador

Ingredients

• 500g flour
• 100g sugar
• 100g butter
• 3 eggs
• 120ml warm milk
• 7g dried yeast
• Zest of 1 orange
• 1 tsp anise seeds
• Salt
• For glaze: melted butter and sugar

Instructions

1. Dissolve yeast in warm milk with a little sugar.
2. Mix flour, sugar, salt, butter, eggs, orange zest, and anise.
3. Add yeast mixture. Knead 10 minutes.
4. Rise 1.5 hours.
5. Shape into round loaves. Add decorative dough bones on top.
6. Rise 30 minutes.
7. Bake at 180C for 25-30 minutes.
8. Brush with melted butter. Roll in sugar.