Solemn event - the wedding is associated with the ancient folk traditions... Bachelorette party, bachelor party, ransom, bridal bouquet, wedding loaf originate in the depths Slavic epic.

Wedding bread - kind symbol every wedding. According to tradition, the groom's relatives should bake a loaf for the wedding. Cleanliness is chosen in advance married woman with a strong family and healthy children. It's great if the groom's godmother bakes the loaf. The energy of a prosperous person leads to harmony and wealth in a new family. They bake bread on the wedding day; a married man should send it to the oven. The baked cake is hidden from the evil eye to the moment of filing. The mother-in-law should serve the loaf to the newlyweds after arriving from the registry office or wedding on an embroidered towel (long towel), giving a parting speech.

According to signs, newlyweds who have tasted bread and salt are not afraid of family troubles and hardships!

Whoever bites off a larger piece will have power in the house

Wedding cake decorations are also traditional. Spikelets symbolize wealth, pigeons - love, swans - loyalty, braids - fertility. And the round shape of the loaf itself - sun symbol.

Photo of a loaf at a wedding

The best recipes for making a loaf for a wedding

Below step by step recipe wedding loaf at home.

Required products:

• 1.2 kg flour;
• 500 ml of milk;
• 5 eggs;
• 150 g Sahara;
• 2 teaspoons of powdered sugar;
• 1.5 tsp vanillin;
• 400 gr. butter;
• 3 bags of yeast;
• 4 tbsp. spoons of honey;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt;
• grease for golden brown: 1 egg, 1 spoonful of milk, 1 spoonful of ghee.

Getting started cooking:

1. Beat sugar and eggs.
2. Combine milk warmed to 36 degrees with the whipped mass, butter and salt, mix. Add yeast, stir again. Add the sifted flour. Sifting enriches flour with air and affects the quality of the future product.
3. Knead the dough thoroughly until it stops sticking to your hands.
4. An indicator of a good kneading is a homogeneous smooth dough. Put in a warm place, cover with cellophane or a towel, so as not to dry out, for 1.5-2 hours.
5. Knead the risen dough again. Divide the fourth part into decorations, from the most part, mold a ball. Add raisins or a dime for young happiness.
6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and the dough on top of it. Give it a round shape. Turn on the oven 200 degrees. Be sure to place a bowl of water on the bottom of the oven. Let the oven heat up and let the dough sit for another 10 minutes.
7. Lubricate the surface of the product with the prepared mixture to form a golden glossy crust.
8. Get your decorations ready. To do this, roll out the dough into a thin layer, cut out swans, leaves, flowers, berries with a knife or molds. Weave a pigtail from the dough, place along the edge of the loaf. To keep the jewelry securely in place, dampen it with water.
9. Place in the oven.
10. Check the product after 30 minutes of baking. Turn to bake evenly. The residence time in the oven is up to 50 minutes.

Take a dish, cover it with a towel, remove the baked bread from the oven onto the dish, cover it with a towel or napkin, let cool... Sprinkle with powdered sugar or vanilla sugar.

We invite you to familiarize yourself with a master class on making a loaf with your own hands:

A video of the preparation and decoration of a loaf for a wedding will help you visually create your own culinary masterpiece!

It is also possible to bake a loaf in an electric oven

Bakeries offer to order for a solemn event, but it is possible to cook a loaf of yeast dough at home, the main thing is keep proportions ingredients and make an effort to knead.

Here a simple recipe for baking loaf with dry yeast:

1. Melt 50 gr. natural butter. Separate the whites and yolks of 4 eggs.
2. In the 6th Art. tablespoons of milk at room temperature, stir 2 teaspoons of sugar, add 10 gr. dry yeast (1 sachet), beat 4 yolks thoroughly with 3 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar, combine with a yeast mixture.
3. In a separate bowl, beat 4 egg whites with 1 teaspoon of salt until frothy. Combine the ingredients: pour 4 tbsp into the dish. premium wheat flour, add proteins, butter and yeast mixture, mix thoroughly. Knead the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.
4. Separate the fifth part for decorations, form a ball from the rest of the dough, put on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
5. Blind decorations, place on the base. Sprinkle with water, let stand for 3 hours in a warm place, avoiding drying out. Cover with cellophane or a towel, sprinkling occasionally with water. After 3 hours, the dough will rise. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, put a container of water on the bottom, bake until golden brown on the lower tier.
6. As soon as the loaf reaches the required blush, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees, cover the product with foil on top, move it to the middle tier, bake for another 1 hour.
7. Gently remove the bread, brush the crust with sweetened water, put on a dish, cover the bottom and top with towels.

After cooling down with a loaf, meet the newlyweds.

Cooking and baking a loaf is easy: it takes 4-5 hours, of which 3 hours the dough rises by itself!

Subject to the rules of kneading, the time of raising and resting the dough, the wedding cake will be soft.

Photo of the test for a loaf

To impress the wedding guests, we bake a festive two-tiered loaf. Take all the products from the list above in double the amount.

Divide the dough into 3 parts:

• to the bottom;
• upper tiers;
• decorations.

Bake both sides at the same time on two baking sheets. After 30-40 minutes, when the crust is browned, remove the top with a knife at the bottom with a diameter equal to the top, lubricate with water, set up the second tier. Place in the oven until tender.

Decorating a loaf at home - manifestation of fantasy and skill! Be sure to blind a salt shaker stand in the center.

Photo wedding decoration loaf

To make spikelets for a loaf:

1. Roll the sausages 2 cm thick, cut to imitate wheat ears.
2. Cut the leaves from a rolled out thin layer.
3. Bunches of grapes are small balls.
4. Making swans out of dough is easy. Roll 2 sausages 6cm long and 1.5-2cm in diameter. Stretch the dough to form small ball at the beginning (head), a graceful neck in the middle, a ball further (this is the body).
5. We form the eyes, beak, wings, tail, bend the neck.

See the step-by-step design in the do-it-yourself video recipe for a wedding loaf at home:

You can blind jewelry from white dough... It will be unleavened dough like for dumplings or protein.

Photo of decorating a loaf at home

White dough recipe to decorate a wedding loaf:

1. 1 glass of water
2. 3 cups flour
3. 1 teaspoon of salt.

Need to: sift flour, add salt, water, knead. Roll out into a thin layer and cut out the decorations. Place on the product cooked in the oven and bake.

Protein dough for decorating the loaf:

1. 4 squirrels,
2. 400 gr. flour.

Need to: sift flour thoroughly beat in a blender with proteins. The dough will become firm. Now sculpt decorations from it. They will remain light in color when baked.

Why does the loaf settle after baking?

Cooking tips:

1. Opening the oven early for the first time. We put the bread in the oven, you can open the door no earlier than 20 minutes later.
2. Preheat the oven for 10-15 minutes.
3. Make sure to sift the flour. This is 40% success. The point of sifting is to enrich flour with oxygen, then it will better react with yeast.
4. Do not be lazy to knead thoroughly. Difficult physical labor, but the quality and splendor of the cake depends on the duration and intensity of the kneading.

Here are the reasons why the donkey is a loaf. In order not to lose face in the mud on the eve of the celebration - bake a trial... So you will take into account the nuances and, on the eve of the event, bake an elegant rich product.

Wedding loaf at the celebration

DIY salted dough loaf

In order to make salty dough for sculpting, you need to prepare:

• 1 tbsp. fine salt;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• 8 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• 250 ml of water;

First stir all dry ingredients in a deep container, then pour in sunflower oil and water. If you want the dough to take on a certain color, then gently stir in carrot or beet juice into it. The dough will be soft and pliable!

Photo of salted dough for making a loaf

To make a loaf with your own hands, remember that braid or ornate plait around the edge - a required element... Such decor looks elegant, symbolizes happiness and wealth, does not allow baked goods to blur. Weave it out individual harnesses and place around the edge. The surface of the upper part of the loaf is filled with dough figurines.

When decorating a loaf with molding, in addition to traditional symbols, they use:

• stars;
• flowers;
• birds in the nest;
• rings;
• cones;
• blades of grass;
• bunches of grapes;
• viburnum berries;
• thin braids;
• flagella;
• stripes.

Elegant loaf for a wedding- symbol new family, joy and well-being, gives newlyweds unforgettable moments that will be remembered for a lifetime. Be sure to decorate such a solemn event with it.

Master - class on modeling from salt dough with children and parents in the middle group No. 2
Educator of the first qualification category of MBDOU "Novotoryalsky kindergarten No. 2" Teremok "Repina V.V.
Topic: "From a grain to a loaf" in the framework of the project "His Majesty Bread".
Date: 04/06/2012.
Goals:
1. Educational - familiarization with various technologies in molding from salt dough.
2. Developing - the development of cognitive interests in the creation of new forms.
3. Educational - to foster interest in the study and knowledge of the surrounding world through sculpted images.
Tasks:
Form the skills of rolling and rolling salt dough.
Teach the method of sculpting a volumetric figure using a frame (plastic jar).
Develop an interest in experimenting with form. Show the possibility of creating a loaf by adding a stucco method to the finished form.
To develop creativity, initiative and independence in the choice of methods for decorating products (decorating a loaf with braids, bindings, nets, plaits, adhesions and additional art materials).
Fostering careful handling of bread and respectful attitude to the people who grow and bake it.
Develop fine motor skills and synchronization of both hands.
To form in children and parents a sense of joy from joint activities.
Preliminary work.
Examination of A. Shishkin's paintings "Rye", "Cleaning of Bread", pictures and illustrations "Cereals".
Research experiments with cereals, flour, dough.
Sowing wheat grains into the ground, followed by monitoring the seedlings.
Presentation showing "Where does bread come from?"
Slide show on the topic: "What can be made from flour."
Work in the "Merry dough" circle - making various bakery products for the "Shop" game.
Collecting the necessary art materials and tools.
Preparation and coloring of salt dough.
Consultation for parents: "Recipes for making salt dough, its coloring, drying, storage."
Organization of the competition of handicrafts from salt dough "Beauty with your own hands".
Acquaintance with the work of adults within educational activities"Travel to the world of crafts".
Enrichment of children's ideas about the work of people who grow and bake bread.
Organization of excursions:
- to the grain field (in different time of the year);
- to the bakery.
Methods and techniques:
Vocabulary work - application of oral folk art.
Finger game"Mill".
Physical education "Let's knead the dough."
D / game "Name it correctly."
Using visuals: ear of bread, wheat, flour, dough.
Use of ICT (computer).
Presentation of the master class "Loaf" (manufacturing technology).
Team work educator, children and parents.

Working with salted dough.

Clarification of the stages of work.

Independent choice of artwork decoration with additional art materials (art design).

Literature:

IV Guseva "Toys made of salt dough". Saint Petersburg. 2011.

S. V. Chirkova " Parent meetings v kindergarten» ( middle group). Moscow. Waco. 2010.

Course of the lesson:

Today we have another lesson of a master class on testoplasty.

Topic: "From a grain to a loaf."

Now I will guess a riddle, and after guessing it, you will find out what we will do today.

“Grew up at first in the wild in the field,

In the summer, it bloomed and spiked.

And when they thrashed,

He suddenly turned into a grain.

From grain to flour and dough.

I took a place in the store ”(Kolos).

We will talk with you about bread and the attitude towards it.

Guys, who knows where the bread comes from? (statements of children).

Yes, bread does not have an easy and long way that it goes from a grain to a loaf.

On the teacher's table are: wheat grains, a spikelet, flour, dough.

Children with a teacher recall the whole process of growing cereals. Explaining and showing how many grains are obtained from a small grain, then they turn into flour, and from flour into dough. And only after that you can prepare the dough and bake the bread.

Remember with the children what needs to be added to the flour to knead the dough (children tell).

So, the path of bread is a very complicated and long process. And a lot of people are trying to cook this tasty and healthy bread for everyone.

And now let's talk about how you need to treat bread and the people who grow and bake it (statements by children about a careful attitude to bread).

Make a conclusion: every person on earth needs bread.

"There is nothing more expensive than warm bread in this white world."

Now let's read the verses that we know about bread (children read poems about bread).

Children, today our mothers and I will become bakers and make a beautiful salted dough loaf.

Demonstration of making a volumetric figure of a loaf made of salted dough using a frame (plastic jar). Using a laptop to show the presentation "Loaf" - manufacturing technology (parents and children watch the order of making the craft).

And now, before starting work. Let's warm up our fingers.

Finger game "Mill".

For the work of the millstone,

Grind the grains, first!

To make a loaf,

Turn the millstones faster!

Stronger than three grain of the side,

It turns out flour! (three palm on palm in a circular motion, first in one direction, then in the other direction).

After the game, everyone gets to work: the parents roll out the dough with rolling pins and stucco around the frame of the future loaf.

Children with a teacher roll out "sausages" for plaits and plaits, which will be used to decorate the loaf.

During work, light music sounds.

Word game "Say it correctly" (questions and answers)

What is the name of:

Wheat bread - wheat.

The rye field is rye.

Oat porridge - oatmeal.

Rye bread - rye.

Buckwheat porridge - buckwheat.

The oat field is oatmeal.

Millet porridge - millet.

The wheat field is wheat.

Carrying out physical education: "Knead the dough."

"Oh, palms, okay,

We bake pancakes.

Kneading the dough

And the dough in the bowl is cramped.

The dough fell on the table

The dough plopped onto the table.

The dough ran

Start over. "

After the loaf is molded, you need to arrange it using different ways decorations (bindings, plaits, braids, mesh, moldings).

Then, using modern art decor: beads, sequins, rhinestones, beads, glitter gel, etc., decorate the craft yourself. While developing fiction, fantasy, Creative skills... Children take part with their parents in the decoration, using caps from felt-tip pens, buttons with various patterns, pasta for printing patterns.

After completing the assignment, everyone examines the finished loaves, admires the beauty and their uniqueness. They rejoice at the successes of their own and their comrades.

At the end of the lesson, the director of the bakery brings on a towel a real loaf baked by the bakers of the bakery for children. For their careful attitude to bread and respect for the labor of people who grow and bake it.

Master - class on modeling from salt dough with children and parents in the middle group No. 2
Educator of the first qualification category MBDOU "Novotoryalsky kindergarten № 2" Teremok "Repina V.V.
Topic: "From a grain to a loaf" in the framework of the project "His Majesty Bread".
Date: 04/06/2012.
Goals:
1. Educational - familiarization with various technologies in molding from salt dough.
2. Developing - the development of cognitive interests in the creation of new forms.
3. Educational - to foster interest in the study and knowledge of the surrounding world through sculpted images.
Tasks:
Form the skills of rolling and rolling salt dough.
Teach the method of sculpting a volumetric figure using a frame (plastic jar).
Develop an interest in experimenting with form. Show the possibility of creating a loaf by adding a stucco method to the finished form.
To develop creativity, initiative and independence in the choice of methods for decorating products (decorating a loaf with braids, bindings, nets, plaits, adhesions and additional art materials).
Fostering a careful handling of bread and a respectful attitude towards people who grow and bake it.
Develop fine motor skills and synchronization of both hands.
To form in children and parents a sense of joy from joint activities.
Preliminary work.
Examination of A. Shishkin's paintings "Rye", "Cleaning of Bread", pictures and illustrations "Cereals".
Research experiments with cereals, flour, dough.
Sowing wheat grains into the ground, followed by monitoring the seedlings.
Presentation showing "Where does bread come from?"
Slide show on the topic: "What can be made from flour."
Work in the "Merry dough" circle - making various bakery products for the "Shop" game.
Collecting the necessary art materials and tools.
Preparation and coloring of salt dough.
Consultation for parents: "Recipes for making salt dough, its coloring, drying, storage."
Organization of the competition of handicrafts from salt dough "Beauty with your own hands".
Acquaintance with the work of adults in the framework of educational activities "Travel to the world of crafts".
Enrichment of children's ideas about the work of people who grow and bake bread.
Organization of excursions:
- to the grain field (at different times of the year);
- to the bakery.
Methods and techniques:
Vocabulary work - the use of oral folk art.
Finger game "Mill".
Physical education "Let's knead the dough."
D / game "Name it correctly."
Using visuals: ear of bread, wheat, flour, dough.
Use of ICT (computer).
Presentation of the master class "Loaf" (manufacturing technology).
Joint activities of the educator, children and parents.

Working with salted dough.

Clarification of the stages of work.

Independent choice of artwork decoration with additional art materials (art design).

Literature:

IV Guseva "Toys made of salt dough". Saint Petersburg. 2011.

S. V. Chirkova "Parents' meetings in kindergarten" (middle group). Moscow. Waco. 2010.

Course of the lesson:

Today we have another lesson of a master class on testoplasty.

Topic: "From a grain to a loaf."

Now I will guess a riddle, and after guessing it, you will find out what we will do today.

“Grew up at first in the wild in the field,

In the summer, it bloomed and spiked.

And when they thrashed,

He suddenly turned into a grain.

From grain to flour and dough.

I took a place in the store ”(Kolos).

We will talk with you about bread and the attitude towards it.

Guys, who knows where the bread comes from? (statements of children).

Yes, bread does not have an easy and long way that it goes from a grain to a loaf.

On the teacher's table are: wheat grains, a spikelet, flour, dough.

Children with a teacher recall the whole process of growing cereals. Explaining and showing how many grains are obtained from a small grain, then they turn into flour, and from flour into dough. And only after that you can prepare the dough and bake the bread.

Remember with the children what needs to be added to the flour to knead the dough (children tell).

So, the path of bread is a very complicated and long process. And a lot of people are trying to cook this tasty and healthy bread for everyone.

And now let's talk about how you need to treat bread and the people who grow and bake it (statements by children about a careful attitude to bread).

Make a conclusion: every person on earth needs bread.

"There is nothing more expensive than warm bread in this white world."

Now let's read the verses that we know about bread (children read poems about bread).

Children, today our mothers and I will become bakers and make a beautiful salted dough loaf.

Demonstration of making a volumetric figure of a loaf made of salted dough using a frame (plastic jar). Using a laptop to show the presentation "Loaf" - manufacturing technology (parents and children watch the order of making the craft).

And now, before starting work. Let's warm up our fingers.

Finger game "Mill".

For the work of the millstone,

Grind the grains, first!

To make a loaf,

Turn the millstones faster!

Stronger than three grain of the side,

It turns out flour! (three palm on palm in a circular motion, first in one direction, then in the other direction).

After the game, everyone gets to work: the parents roll out the dough with rolling pins and stucco around the frame of the future loaf.

Children with a teacher roll out "sausages" for plaits and plaits, which will be used to decorate the loaf.

During work, light music sounds.

Word game "Say it correctly" (questions and answers)

What is the name of:

Wheat bread - wheat.

The rye field is rye.

Oat porridge - oatmeal.

Rye bread - rye.

Buckwheat porridge - buckwheat.

The oat field is oatmeal.

Millet porridge - millet.

The wheat field is wheat.

Carrying out physical education: "Knead the dough."

"Oh, palms, okay,

We bake pancakes.

Kneading the dough

And the dough in the bowl is cramped.

The dough fell on the table

The dough plopped onto the table.

The dough ran

Start over. "

After the loaf is molded, you need to arrange it using various methods of decoration (bindings, plaits, braids, mesh, moldings).

Then, using modern art decor: beads, sequins, rhinestones, beads, glitter gel, etc., decorate the craft yourself. While developing fiction, fantasy, creativity. Children take part with their parents in the decoration, using caps from felt-tip pens, buttons with various patterns, pasta for printing patterns.

After completing the assignment, everyone examines the finished loaves, admires the beauty and their uniqueness. They rejoice at the successes of their own and their comrades.

At the end of the lesson, the director of the bakery brings on a towel a real loaf baked by the bakers of the bakery for children. For their careful attitude to bread and respect for the labor of people who grow and bake it.

You can make a huge number of crafts from salted dough, for example: flowers, animals, various figures, inscriptions, numbers, toys, paintings and whatever you want! Salt dough modeling is called bioceramics. The advantage of salted dough is that it is convenient to work with, this material is absolutely harmless and crafts made from it will delight you for several years. In this article, we will look at how to make crafts from salt dough with your own hands.

You will need: a glass of wheat flour, a glass of extra salt, half a glass of cold water, a bowl.

Recipe

Finished salty dough should not stick to your hands or crumble. It should be cool and easy to sculpt. I recommend watching the video master class!

There are two most common methods for drying salt dough. The first way: the finished craft will dry itself. The main thing is that no straight lines fall on it. Sun rays otherwise it will crack. You can put the craft on a flat surface and wait a few days. Second method: dry the finished craft in the oven for 3 to 6 hours (depending on the size of the craft). Drying occurs in approaches with breaks. One approach is 1-2 hours. For quick drying in one go, set 75-100 degrees in the oven, and then, the craft will dry in an hour. At a temperature of 120 degrees, the craft will dry in 30 minutes, but it is better to dry it naturally.

There are two most common ways to color salt dough. The first method: after drying, the finished craft is painted with acrylics or gouache using a brush. Second way: food colorings diluted in water, then added during the preparation of the dough. When the craft is completely painted and dried, it must be covered with 2-3 layers of transparent manicure or furniture varnish. Each layer must dry before applying the next. In this way, the craft will last for a long time.

You will need: painted salt dough, stack, transparent nail polish, toothpick.

Master Class

The salty dough star is ready!

Salted dough caterpillar

You will need: painted dough, knife, pva glue, toothpick, pendant, transparent manicure varnish.

Master Class

1. Roll out the sausage.
2. Cut it into 6 equal pieces.
3. Roll up the balls.
4. Glue 5 balls together.
5. Glue the head.
6. Blind the nose and eyes, then glue them.
7. Use a toothpick to poke the suspension.
8. Dry the craft.
9. Attach the pendant.

The salted dough caterpillar is ready!

Salted dough apple

You will need:

Master Class

1. Blind the half of the apple, make the inner part flat, pressing it against a flat surface.
2. Blind a thin, flat center and glue to the body.
3. Roll 6 seeds and a stick, then glue to the apple.
4. Blind the leaves, then glue them.
5. Dry the craft.
6. Cover with varnish and wait until dry.

The salted dough apple is ready!

Salted dough elephant

You will need: painted salt dough, pva glue, transparent manicure varnish.

Master Class

1. Blind the body of the elephant by rolling an elongated ball.
2. Blind 4 legs in the shape of plump sausages.
3. Blind the proboscis.
4. Blind the ears of the elephant in this way: roll 2 flat cakes, glue cakes of the same shape in a smaller size in a different color to them.
5. Blind a small ponytail.
6. Blind your eyes.
7. Assemble the elephant in the following sequence: glue the legs to the body, then glue the proboscis, then the ears, eyes and tail.
8. Dry the craft.
9. Cover with varnish and wait until dry.

Salted dough elephant is ready!

You will need: salty dough, foil, candy vase or similar plastic container, gouache, brush, clear nail polish, modeling board, knife or stack.

Master Class

You will need: salt dough, nail scissors, pva glue, acrylic paints or gouache, nail polish brush.

Master Class

Salted dough hedgehog is ready!

Owl (eagle owl) from salt dough

You will need: salt dough, PVA glue, nail file, nail scissors, acrylic paints or gouache, paintbrush, wooden plank with pendant, transparent manicure varnish.

Master Class

Salted dough owl is ready!

You will need: salty dough, the base on which the craft will be attached, for example, a plate or plate, a stack or a knife, a sheet of paper, a simple pencil, a garlic crusher, a rolling pin, PVA glue, acrylic paints or gouache, a brush, transparent nail polish, cloves.

Master Class

Salted dough fruit basket is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

You will need: salt dough, a knife, a rolling pin, a simple pencil, a sheet of paper, sandpaper, acrylic paints or gouache, a brush, a transparent nail polish, a glue gun or PVA, a base for crafts, for example: a board with a frame, transparent nail polish.

Master Class

1. Draw a cat or print a template.
   
   
2. Roll out the dough into a thin layer.
3. Attach a template and cut out the cat.
   
   
4. Dry the craft.
5. Sand the craft with sandpaper, removing any irregularities.
6. Using a simple pencil, transfer the desired drawing onto the cat's body.
7. Paint with paints and wait until it dries completely.
   
   
8. Glue the cat to the base with the frame.

Salt dough pencil

You will need: water, flour, extra salt, a cardboard jar for the frame, PVA glue, scissors, a piece of decorative cord or corrugated paper, gouache, tassel, button, stacks, acrylic lacquer for crafts, toothbrush.

Master Class

1. Knead the salted dough in this way: pour a glass of flour, a glass of salt, add water, then knead until the desired consistency of molding. Separate a portion of the dough, add beige gouache, then knead.
2. Roll out a flat cake 10-15 mm thick.
   
   
3. Apply PVA glue to the outer rim of the jar and wrap with dough. Cut off the excess with a stack, and smooth out the joints with a damp brush.
4. Create a small dotted texture with a toothbrush on the surface of the dough.
5. Knead the dough Brown, roll it into a cake 10-15mm thick.
   
   
6. Cut a 5 cm wide strip of brown dough and glue to the bottom of the jar.
7. Form 2 large owl eye bases with white dough, then glue them.
8. Form a brown dough beak and glue it down.
9. Blind the eyes from the turquoise dough and glue them.
10. Roll 8 strips of pink dough, twist 4 flagella from them and mold a bow, then leave it to dry for 2 hours.
11. Blind the owl's wings into brown dough droplets, then glue them.
    
    
12. Weave beige dough into strands and glue the jar to the neck.
13. Roll a sausage from white dough, draw the texture of lace with a stack and glue it as a collar under the beak.
14. Put the craft in a warm place for a day.
15. Paint lower part and the wings in brown gouache and decorate with white dots.
    
    
16. Paint the pupils and eyelashes with black gouache, wait for the paint to dry, then paint white highlights on the eyes.
17. Glue the pink bow above the wing.
18. glue a button with a bow from a corrugated strip to the lace.
19. Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries completely.

The salt dough pencil is ready!

Salted dough dachshund

You will need: salt dough, a simple pencil, scissors, cardboard, paints, brush, rope, toothpick, foam sponge, clear nail polish, PVA glue.

Master Class

1. Draw a dachshund on the cardboard as shown in the image.
2. Cut out the template.
   
   
3. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm and cut the dachshund to the template.
4. Roll up the oblong eyes, then glue them.
5. Blind eyelids and glue over eyes.
6. Use a toothpick to sketch out the paws, nose, mouth, ear and body outline.
   
   
7. Roll an oval, then glue it over your ear and smooth the joint with a wet finger. Add volume to the back of the dachshund and tail in the same way.
8. Mark stripes in different directions around the perimeter of the entire dachshund, in such a way that the stripes resemble wool.
9. Dry the figurine.
   
   
10. Glue a piece of rope onto reverse side crafts, for further hanging.

Dachshund made of salted dough is ready!

Salted dough boletus mushroom

You will need: salt dough, light bulb, paints, brush, foil, cardboard, masking tape, superglue, PVA glue, paper napkins, transparent varnish, stack.

Master Class

1. Cover the light bulb with tape, then stick it with dough and dry the piece.
2. Cut a ring out of cardboard and place it over a light bulb as a base for a hat.
3. Form a hat out of crumpled napkins, then secure with tape.
   
   
4. Wrap foil around the hat.
5. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm and stick around the cap.
6. Remove the cap from the leg, stick the dough over the bottom and make the strips stack.
7. Glue the cap onto the leg.
   
   
8. Blind the handle, legs and nose to the fungus, then glue them on the PVA.
9. Blind the caterpillar and glue to the hat.
10. Dry the figurine.
    
    
11. Color in the figurine, then leave to dry.
12. Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries.

The boletus mushroom from salted dough is ready! I recommend watching this video!

Funny pigs made from salt dough

You will need: salt dough, paints, brush, foam sponge, stack, thin string, toothpick, black helium pen, PVA glue.

Master Class

1. Roll 2 balls for the patch and poke through the nostrils with a toothpick.
2. Blind the muzzle, glue the patch and the eyes above it.
3. Blind the triangular ears, glue them, then mark the stripes with a stack at the junction of the ears and head.
   
   
4. Blind the heart and glue it on the bottom side.
5. Make indentations around the edge of the entire circle.
6. Use a toothpick to make 2 holes at the top for attaching the rope and 2 holes at the bottom for the legs.
   
   
7. Roll up the handles and glue them in such a way that they hold the heart.
8. Blind the hooves and poke holes in them for the rope.
9. Dry the workpieces.
10. Paint the blanks with black paint and let them dry.
11. Rinse off the paint from the convex parts of the workpiece under running water with a sponge and wait until it dries.
    
    
12. Prime the figures with a sponge and white paint.
13. Color the piglets.
14. Draw small details with a black helium pen.
15. Cover the craft with varnish and wait until it dries.
    
    
16. Glue the woolen strings as hair.
17. Make a pendant from the rope.

The funny salt dough pigs are ready! I recommend watching this video!

Loaf in Slavic culture was central to wedding and even funeral traditions. Like the Easter cake, it is a ceremonial bread. Now loaves are mainly used to meet an official important guest. And ordinary people bake them exclusively for a wedding. What distinguishes a loaf from other sweet pastry pastries? Since this is ceremonial bread, it is served with salt. The bride and groom, who were greeted with a loaf, had to pinch off a piece, then dip the bread in a salt shaker and eat it. This symbolized the promise to "taste a pound of salt together." All the wedding guests ate the loaf for the young. Another distinguishing feature of ceremonial bread from simply delicious pastries is the abundance of decorations. And not just vintage, like the original cake, but traditional ones. After all, every detail of the decor carried a special symbolic meaning and influenced, as our ancestors believed, on the further life together young married couple... Therefore, the topic of our article will not be baking, but decorating loaves. We will present a master class for decorating wedding bread below.

Loafs in the pagan culture of the Slavs

This bread was baked by our ancestors even before Christianity came to Russia. The loaf must be round shape, in honor of the sun god Yaril. It was very important for the dough to rise. The higher the loaf came out, the more prosperity the young people expected. According to sympathetic magic, the woman who kneaded the dough, baked and decorated the ritual bread, passed on a piece of her fate to the bride. Therefore, only special "loafs" were allowed to such work. They were supposed to be married, happily married, and have children. And widows were allowed to bake only the so-called memorial loaves. Such ritual bread was shared by relatives and friends of the deceased. Now you can order in cafes-pastry shops. But if you put a piece of your soul into bread, it can affect the fate of the young. Previously, the process of kneading dough and baking was accompanied by ritual songs and readings of prayers. Perhaps today we can do without it. But decorating the product remains an important step. Therefore, you need to know how to decorate a loaf with your own hands.

The symbolic meaning of decor details

Do not forget that this bread is ritual. Therefore, its decor must be approached differently than decorating a cake. It is not fantasy that is important here, but knowledge of the symbolic meaning of certain elements. First of all, let's not forget to leave room for the salt shaker. It should be placed strictly in the center of the loaf. Floral ornaments should be placed around the salt shaker. As a rule, this is a pigtail (symbol long-term relationship), wheat spikelets (fertility, which in a wedding loaf is identified with having many children), flowers and leaves (prosperity and prosperity), pigeons and horses, stars (happiness, fidelity). In Ukraine, bunches of viburnum are an invariable attribute on such ritual bread. It is not only a national symbol, but also a sign of love and marital fidelity. Of course, you can take a more modern look at the loaf decoration and decorate its surface. wedding rings, swans, figurines of the bride and groom. You can stay true pagan traditions and display the stylized ones on the loaf. But it is better to stick to the "golden mean" after all.

What to make jewelry

Mastic is a fertile material for decoration. As elastic as plasticine, it is good for sculpting all sorts of figures or complex fragments. In addition, it can be tinted. Mastic and marshmallows will turn the product into a super-dressy wedding loaf. Photos of such culinary masterpieces look impressive. You can create multi-tiered wedding cakes, because mastic (if stored correctly) is a very durable material. But if you want to know how to decorate a loaf according to Slavic traditions, you need to learn how to work with dough. After all, our ancestors did not know, They made all the details of the decor from dough. But it is important to know not only how to create decorative elements, but also what to sculpt them from and when to cling to the surface of the loaf.

You can set aside some of the material from which we will bake our wedding cake. Proceeding from the fact that the loaf must certainly be large (each participant in the celebration is entitled to at least a small piece), decorating the product will require at least six hundred grams of dough. But a caveat should be made here. If we decorate our loaf before sending it to the oven, then the butter dough will melt during baking and mix with the base. Because of this, the details of the decor will be barely visible. Therefore, for decoration they use unleavened dough, like dumplings and dumplings, or shortbread dough. In this case, the details of the decor will be more embossed, convex and retain their clear outlines. Modern technologies allow us to paint jewelry in different colors. But our ancestors used burnt sugar, egg white, buckwheat and rye flour for these purposes.

Pastry decorations

So that the decor details do not blur, but remain embossed, they should not be attached to the surface of the cake immediately, but fifteen to twenty minutes before the loaf is ready. An exception may be pigtails from the dough. Since this is a fairly large piece of decoration, it takes longer to bake. In addition, the pigtail, like a hoop for a barrel, holds the surface of the wedding cake, preventing the dough from spreading. This decor detail is very easy to do. Cut off three identical strips of dough. In length, they should be two and a half times the diameter of the loaf. We fasten one end of the three strips together. And then weave a braid. We put it along the perimeter of the top of the product. We hide the tip of the braid underneath. After all, this braid should symbolize the infinity of marital happiness. You can weave another small and thin pigtail, decorating the place for the salt shaker with it.

Roses

Flowers on a wedding loaf symbolize family happiness and motherhood. They look especially festive on How to decorate a loaf beautifully with this "queen of flowers"? Cut out four circles. Place them on top of each other and roll them up. Break it into two halves, squeezing in the middle with your fingers. There will be two small roses. To make a large flower, let's use another method. Take one circle of dough and twist it in the center, smoothing the edges nicely. On top of it we put another piece of the same kind, and then another and another, until a lush and beautiful rose... Let's add leaves to the flowers. To do this, roll out the dough in a thin layer and cut out the rhombuses. Then with a knife we ​​make cuts on them to make them look like rose leaves. Use a needle to draw streaks on the dough.

Details of floral ornament

Everyone knows approximately how a wedding loaf should look like. The photos represent it as round and tall bread, the top of which is decorated with flowers, ears, viburnum bunches, oak leaves. Stems are the easiest floral designs to prepare. The elastic dumpling dough can be rolled into very thin flagella. Even a child can make viburnum berries. You need to roll up small balls of dough. In the color version, the loaf can be tinted with powdered paprika. These balls should be cut in half and laid in bunches of semicircles. Spikelets (a symbol of fertility) will be a little more difficult to create. Roll out the dough into small sausages (two to three centimeters long). Using nail scissors, we make cuts on the sides to make it look like ears of wheat.

Swan birds

Doves are a favorite character in the decoration of ritual pies. But on easter kulich this bird symbolizes the Holy Spirit, and at the wedding - peace and love. Therefore, there should be two pigeons. It's easy to sculpt these birds. Roll out strips of dough three centimeters long and 0.5 cm wide. Tie knots at the edges. On one of them we cut out a beak with the tip of a knife, and on the second - a tail. Let's flatten the main piece of dough. Draw wings with a needle, and ruffle feathers with nail scissors. How to decorate a loaf with two swans? They will be as easy to make as pigeons. Roll two six centimeters long sausages from the dough with our fingers. We will stretch each of them in such a way that at one end a large oval forms (the body of the swan), and at the other - a small ball (its head). We attach both birds to the loaf. We form a beak and eyes on the ball, bend the flagellum (neck) beautifully. We make a tail on the oval, draw wings and feathers.

Play with color

To make the decor details as different as possible from the background of the base, you need to know when and how to decorate the loaf. You can stick them on at the very beginning, before sending the product to the oven. But then you should not grease them with yolk. In this case, the cake itself will come out ruddy, and its decorations will be white. You can go beyond such a monochrome "grisaille" and make a colored loaf. In this case, paints should be cocoa, turmeric, paprika in powder, crushed dry tomatoes. Since the details of the loaf's decor are also edible, the dyes should be exclusively edible.

How to "stick" jewelry on a product

If we use the same yeast dough for decoration as for the wedding cake, we should not attach it to the base before baking. In the oven, all details will blur and become barely noticeable. How to decorate a loaf with blanks made later? Fifteen to twenty minutes before the loaf is ready, we take it out of the oven. You need to work very quickly. After all, hypothermia of an unbaked product can lead to the fact that the dough will fall off. Lubricate the top with sugar syrup or shaken egg white. We attach decorations to this culinary "glue". We put in the oven and bake until completely cooked.