Prosphoron is consisted of 3 ingredients: flour with yeast representing the soul, water represents Baptism and salt represents the teaching of the Lord to His disciples: "You are the salt of the Earth."
Ingredients:
- 5 cups flour
- 2 cups of warm water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cube fresh yeast
- seal
- Dissolve the yeast in ½ cup lukewarm water, same way as in preparation of plain bread.
- Put flour in a bowl and add salt. Mix it thoroughly with flour and add the dissolved yeast. Slowly pour the remaining water, then knead the dough well until strong enough.
- Divide dough in 10 balls (for 5 prosphorons). Take 2 balls, stretch them a bit and press with your palm, then glue both disks.
- Put seal in flour, shake well and press it in the prosphoron. Carefully pull it out.
- Leave to rise in a warm place until double the size of the dough.
- Before baking, press the seal again in the bread in the same position, then bake at about 200 C degrees for about half an hour.
- Once you're done, wash dishes you used with a sponge only for that purpose.
Note:
Yeast should be warm in all stages of preparation of prosphoron;
Before baking, put a little flour at the bottom of the baking pan ;
Before we bring prosphoron in the church, wallow in a separate clean cloth.