Dragon Bread for Michaelmas
Lucas’s watercolor dragon painting, which is on display in our home.
Today is the official Feast of Saint Michael. Michael was the archangel who threw Lucifer out of heaven. It is Michael who sends us courage to fight the good fight, to face up to dragons and monsters in ourselves and our society, which seems so very necessary in these difficult times. How do you meet on the battlefield the dragons of fear, hate, greed, and bigotry? What will you do to celebrate and conjure courage and goodness?
Last year in school, Lucas’s third grade class made dragon bread and they copied the recipe into their cooking main lesson book. I’ll translate and fill in the gaps:
DRAGON BREAD
2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
3 3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup warm water
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar
Mix together the yeast and warm water. Let it rest. In another bowl, mix eggs, oil, salt, and sugar. Add flour. Add yeast and water mixture and mix until blended. Knead the dough on a floured surface until it’s firm and smooth, then round it into a bowl coated in a little oil. Turn the ball over once to coat both sides of dough with oil. Let the dough rise in a warm place until it has doubled in size. Now place your dough on a greased cookie sheet and shape it into a dragon. You can use scissors to cut legs, a mouth, scales, etc. Poke in almonds for teeth, or dried fruits for spikes, if you wish. Cover and let your dragon bread rise again for about 30 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees until done. Devour with righteousness!
Of course, any bread recipe you like will work just as nicely. Yum!
September 28, 2012 at 1:09 pm
We made this today for breakfast tomorrow. Smells so very yummy! Wish I had made a little one to dig into for dinner 🙂
February 5, 2019 at 7:02 pm
Hello,
I came across your site by accident . I’m truly enjoying your posts .
My son goes to a. Quaker school. His school is going through some growing pains . My son and I are going to be making Loaves of bread to give to people. The quote about love really resonated with me. I was wondering if we could attach the quote to each loaf of bread.
Thanks for spreading Love and creativity.
Take care of you,
Nicole