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Every year on 02 November celebrates Mexico's most important holiday – the Day of the Dead or “Dia de los Muertos”. Celebrated the return of the dead to their families, because after pre-Hispanic belief the dead to visit on this day in their survivors.For non-Mexicans, this is certainly one of the strangest holidays – to celebrate the dead in such a real cult is indeed rather uncommon elsewhere.

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To those who have died for this special day to welcome home, altars are built and decorated with pictures of the dead, yellow marigolds and candles. And the best: eating and drinking will be placed on the altar, because it is believed that the spirits are hungry and thirsty after their long journey of the dead in the present.

What may be missing on that day in any case, on the altars, the “Pan de Muertos” – the Mexican Bread of the Dead. As part of our series “Buen Provecho México” and time for Día de los Muertos 2011, you can now find the following recipe for this delicious sweet pasta nachzubacken:

Ingredients

1kg flour

200g sugar

50g milk powder

Salt 20g

1 grated lemon rind

1 grated orange peel

5ml Oragenblütenessenz

5ml lemon flower essence

7 eggs

20g yeast

150g butter

150g margarine

Preparation

Mix the flour with the yeast and then press the mixture into a tray, get into the other ingredients. Mix everything well with your hands until you have a smooth mass.

The dough in a warm place and let stand for 30 minutes. Then put the dough in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

If the past two hours, take the dough from the refrigerator, put some of it aside to rest and form the loaves. From the dough before you form now separate “bone” and press the cross-like on the loaves. Then let it all again left for one hour in a warm place.

Finally, the loaves are baked at 200 ° C for 15 to 20 minutes.

After the “Pan de Muertos” comes from the oven, it is brushed with melted butter and sugar.

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