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'''[[Template:Zajamčena Tradicionalna Posebnost|ZTP]] Belokranjska pogača''' is a form of flatbread, round in shape and with its own recipe. It is prepared using type-500 soft white [[flour]], lukewarm water and with the addition of [[salt]] and [[yeast]].

Belokranjska pogača is round with a diameter of approximately 30 cm. In the centre it is between 3
and 4 cm thick, thinning to 1-2 centimetres at the edges. The surface is incised with a grid of angled
lines approximately 4 cm apart, coated with beaten [[egg]] and sprinkled with [[caraway]] and coarse [[salt]]
crystals. The [[bread]] has a uniform crust without blisters and a characteristically strong smell and taste
of [[caraway]] and [[salt]].
At its best when warm, the [[bread]] is broken along the incised, angled lines rather than being cut.

'''Ingredients''':
500 g soft white flour (type 500)
3 dl lukewarm water
2 teaspoons salt
20 g yeast
a half spoonful of sugar
1 whole egg
1 pinch of caraway
1 pinch of coarse sea salt

'''Preparation of the dough''':

Beat together 20 g of [[yeast]], 3 spoonfuls of soft white [[flour]], ½ dl lukewarm water and the [[sugar]]. Mix
them together until a viscous substance is formed and leave until it has more than doubled in
volume.

'''Mixing the dough''':

The mix is prepared using soft white [[flour]] (type 500), lukewarm water and the rising agent. [[Knead]] for
8 to 10 minutes or until it is smooth and not too hard. It should not stick to the hands. The [[dough]] is
left covered in the mixing bowl to rise until it has doubled in volume.

'''Shaping the dough''':

The risen [[dough]] is turned out onto a greased baking tray and shaped by hand so that it is 30 cm in
diameter and between 1 and 2 cm thick, becoming thinner towards the edges. The [[dough]] must not
touch the edges of the baking tray and must be lower at the edges than in the middle.

'''Coating, sprinkling and cutting the surface''':

The [[dough]] is sliced through to the base of the baking tray from one side of the loaf to the other,
using slanted incisions approximately 4 cm apart. The dough is then coated with beaten [[egg]] to which
a pinch of [[caraway]] has been added and sprinkled with coarse [[sea salt]].

'''Baking''':

The '''dough''' is baked in a preheated oven at 220 °C for between 20 and 25 minutes.
Belokranjska pogača must be [[baked]] to a light brown colour. The crust must be uniform in colour and
crispness and be without blisters. The middle must be uniformly porous, without water rings, lumps
of [[salt]] or [[flour]] and must not be tacky to the touch. The central part should be 3 to 4 centimetres in
height, with the edges being 1 to 2 cm high. The [[caraway]] and [[salt]] must have been sprinkled evenly.
There must be the typical [[caraway]] and [[salt]] smell and taste of Belokranjska pogača.

'''Specific character''':

Belokranjska pogača is classified as a Slovenian culinary specialty. It is most often encountered in the
municipality of Metlika. Its particularity lies in its recipe and the manner in which it is prepared and
presented. Once [[baked]], Belokranjska pogača is broken along the incised, angled lines, rather than being cut. A
further particularity of Belokranjska pogača is that it is coated with beaten [[egg]] and sprinkled with
[[caraway]] and coarse [[salt]] so as to give it the traditional strong smell and taste of [[caraway]] when baked.

'''Traditional character''':

Belokranjska pogača has been handed down from generation to generation, thereby preserving it as a
traditional Bela Krajina speciality. It was most probably brought to the region by the Uskoki who
settled in the higher-lying areas on the slopes of the Gorjanci mountains on the Bela Krajina side.
There is written and oral evidence of the origin of this flat bread but the written sources are rather
sketchy.

The Doljenska (Lower Cariola) collector of folk traditions, the noted Slovenian author and traveller
Janez Trdina enjoyed travelling through the above area and knew and wrote about the people living
on the sunny side of the Gorjanci mountains. Accordingly, Belokranjska pogača is mentioned in his
1882 book ‘Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih’.

There is a folk song that runs ‘give him pogača for a spring in his step …’ when children go from
house to house calling for ‘green Yuri’, wrote the Metlika collector of folk traditions and linguist, Ivan
Navratil. The latter's 1849 book ‘Kresovanje v Metliki’ tells of a flat white bread that the local people
called pogača.

Pogača has a long tradition in Bela Krajina, being handed down from generation to generation, since
it is a real specialty of the region. Housewives baking [[bread]] in the baker's oven for domestic use
would always also [[bake]] pogača for the children so that they could eat it warm while the [[bread]]
underwent the necessary cooling down before it could be eaten. Even nowadays it is still extremely typical, with housewives preparing it and offering it to welcome
guests they have invited to their home, but it is also offered to guests on farm stay holidays. You find
it where [[wine]] is sold, old people believing that it soaks up the [[wine]] and prevents the alcohol from
making people drunk.

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