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Can you be more specific regarding the making of pagharch ? My family makes something that sounds like it, but my cookbooks say pagharch is a coffee cake and I’ve never met anyother families who make this wonderful yogurt and garlic and butter concoction. Ours is to celebrate the new year. Thanks, and happy new year to you and yours.
The pagharch I remember is NOT a sweet bread. It is definitely a yeast bread but no one seems to know how to make this bread. Before baking it is sliced in a triangular shape and in baking will rise in height about 2 inches. It has a buttery and yeast taste. A local middle eastern store on Central Avenue in White Plains used to take orders fir pagharch prior to the passing of the owners mother who used to make the bread. Since she passed, it no longer is available. Who has this recipe?
Traci I have an Armenian recipe handed down through my father and his father this doesn’t require yeast I’m not sure if it is the same as what you are looking for. When it is done the bread is dug out of the crust put back into the crust covered in butter with a garlic yogurt sauce on the side. My understanding of this bread is that it is a territorial bread and any Armenians not from this area never have heard of it. I was actually making it today and looking for some assistance to keep it from cracking.
This recipe will feed about 20 people adjust as necessary It is quite simple to make
4 pounds white flour
1 pound whole wheat flour
1/4 cup salt
6 1/2 cups water (that’s what I start with)
Preheat oven to 350 mix all dry ingredients add water knead for 10 minutes adding water or flour as needed
place dough in a buttered floured pan place in oven for 90 minutes remove from oven score a circle in the top of the crust and score twice like a 4 piece pizza pie. flip over cook for 60 minutes remove from oven flip and cook for 60 minutes.
remove the 4 pieces of crust you scored earlier and dig out bread using a large fork after you have dug out all the bread put it back into the crust.
Now you will need 1 pound of clarified butter
Heat the butter till a spoonful placed on the bread bubbles then pour the butter on the bread
Make the yogurt I don’t measure any of this
about 1/2 of a Dannon whole milk plain
1 egg
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup flour
Garlic to taste I use minced and powder
Mix all ingredients heat till you are confident the egg is cooked
Enjoy I hope this is what you are looking for