Little pig for cash gifts

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 kg flour
• 1 tsp salt
• ¼ tsp yeast
• Water
• 1 egg yolk
• some milk
• 2 cranberries or raisins for eyes

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 2 hours

Pig with baked-in bottle for money gifts

You will also need an empty salad dressing bottle, for example, and two wooden dowels. Using the dough ingredients, make a dough that is not too soft. If you form it into a ball, it should hold its shape for a long time. Place the empty bottle, without the lid, on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Set aside a good handful of dough and shape it into two small triangles for the ears and a small curly tail. Quarter the rest and form it into long feet. Cut a small slit in one side of each to make claws. Place the dough over the bottle: 2/3 at the bottom and 1/3 towards the neck of the bottle. For the ears, form a bulge on the head and press the ears on, bending the top tip forward, using the neck of the bottle as a snout and completely covering the bottle. Insert two oiled wooden dowels into the nose, leaving an opening to the bottle through which you can later push the rolled-up banknotes. Press the feet onto the sides and place the curly tail at the back, insert the eyes, brush the sow with the egg yolk and milk mixture, and quickly place it in the preheated oven. This must be done quickly so the dough doesn’t rise too much or slide down. Preheat the oven to 200°C (fan oven), place the sow in, and reduce the temperature to 175°C (350°F). Bake for about an hour until golden brown, possibly less time depending on the oven. After baking, carefully unscrew the wooden dowels to expose the nostrils. Let it cool, push the money through the nostrils, and arrange the sow nicely on straw.