Mouna

Name: Mouna
Yield: Makes Two Loaves
Ingredients: icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting (optional); 130 g/4½ oz/generous ½ cup butter; 15 ml/1 tbsp cold water; 7 g packet easy-blend (rapid-rise) dried yeast; 130 g/4½ oz/scant ⅔ cup sugar; 500 g/1¼ lb/4½ cups unbleached plain (all-purpose) flour; 4 eggs; 45 ml/3 tbsp lukewarm water; 105 ml/7 tbsp lukewarm milk; oil, for greasing; grated rind of 1 orange; 90–120 ml/6–8 tbsp jam

Preparation info

Makes
Two
Loaves

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

This delicate, sweet egg bread of the a Lgerian Jewish community is perfect for a Shabbat breakfast, or to break the fast of Yom Kippur.

Ingredients

500 g/1¼ lb/4½ cups unbleached plain (all-purpose) flour
130

Vegetarian
Yom Kippur
Shabbat
Breakfast

Method

Combine half the flour, half the sugar and the yeast in a large bowl. Stir the water and milk into the dry ingredients and mix until thoroughly combined. Cover and leave in a warm place for about 1 hour until doubled in size.
Whisk together half the remaining sugar and three of the eggs. Mix in the butter and orange rind. Gradually add the remaining flour and k