The Dove

Instructions

The First Dough

• Dissolve the yeast in the milk, stirring up to remove any lumps.
• Add the flour and work until you have a ball.
• Let it sit for about twenty minutes

Second Dough/h5>

• Pour the warm water into the first mixture and mix. The mixture will unmount everything, but that's normal.
• Add the flour a little at a time, stirring constantly to remove lumps. the dough is very hydrated, so the result won't be a ball as before, but a liquid dough is sticky.
• Fate for at least 40 minutes

Third Dough

• Add to the mix the sugar and amlgamate the whole thing.
• Add the flour little by little.
• Since the dough is very soft, if you use the mixer will be amalgamated in ten minutes, by hand instead after at least 15.
• Add the butter in small pieces and mix. If you knead by hand, mix in a little bit at a time.
• Let it rise for an hour

Quarter Dough

• As with previous transitions, add sugar and flour.
• When you mix everything, add the eggs at room temperature, one at a time. Important, do not add the next one until the dough is smooth.
• This task to do by hand is quite long and very tiring, because the eggs at the beginning will destroy completely the dough
• Put a pinch of salt, a few drops of vanilla essence and grated zest.
• Add the butter, always a bit at a time.
• Add the marshmallows and stir some more.
• Let rise for 2 hours.
• Press the dough with your hands and cut about 2/3.
• Take the larger part which will be the central part, roll out some dough and hands, close it to three as an envelope and fold it on the long side arrotolandelo and crushing with fingers on itself, until it forms a smooth Wiener.
• Take the remainder, divide in half and mix as above.
• Take the shape of the Dove and put the dough longer than the middle and the other two sides.
• Let it rise for an hour and a half
• Chocolate coating and final steps
• Chop the almonds with sugar
• Add the egg whites and continue to blend.
• Sprinkle over the dough, using a spatula, being careful not to break and deflate the dough.
• Add the granulated sugar and almonds.
• Make a small cut with the scissors to the tip and place a cherry or almond (the eye of the dove)
• Put in the oven at 160° c for 40 50 minutes.
• For the first twenty minutes open every 3 4 minutes the oven just barely, just to let the steam out.
• Passed this time, put on the Dove aluminium foil, to keep it from burning above