Milinki / Милинки

Dough:

1 cup milk

1 tbsp active dry yeast

1 tbsp oil

dash of salt

2 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour

Toping:

4 oz milk

4 oz Bulgarian Feta cheese, crumbled

3 oz butter, melted

2 tbsps sugar

In a bowl combine yeast, salt, and warm milk (around 38°C). Allow it to stay for 5 minutes. Stir. Yeast must be all dissolved in milk.

Add 1 cup of flour and stir. From the rest of the flour make a well and pour yeast mixture into it and mix until the dough forms a good ball and absorbs all flour. Then, knead the dough for 5 to 10 minutes.

Spread butter over baking pan. Make a small balls (size of egg) and place in baking pan as it shown on picture. Let it rise about 1 h.

In a small sauce pan warm a bit milk and butter. The butter will melt. Add sugar and crumbled Feta cheese. Pour over already raised dough.

Bake in moderate oven 450°F about 30 minutes or until golden brown.

For more crispiness of crusts you could sprinkle (before baking) cornmeal (2-3 tablespoons).