The Best Greek Vasilopita (Greek New Year's Bread) You'll Ever Taste!!!

Greek Vasilopita is a traditional Greek sweet bread or cake that Greek people enjoy making as part of the celebration of the New Year. Greek people often put coins into these cakes (dimes or quarters), and it is said that the person who gets the piece of cake with the coin in it will have good luck for the rest of the year!!! My mom uses a Greek spice called Mastic gum (Mastiha) in her Greek Vasilopita. Mastic gum is a tear drop shaped resin that comes from the sap of a special tree which grows only on one Greek island in the whole entire world—the island of Chios! Some Greek people chew the substance like gum. As it ages, however, the substance becomes less chewy and more dry. The drier it is the easier it is to crush into a mortar and pestle and use in cakes and breads such as my mom’s Vasilopita. Mastic gum has been used over the years to treat a variety of ailments such as acid reflux, inflammatory bowel disease, indigestion, peptic ulcers, and other various diseases. Its smell is unique and incredible, and mastic gum is what gives my mom’s bread a flavor that is just out of this world—absolutely delicious—-and is what sets it apart from many other recipes for Greek Vasilopita which you will find online. My mom buys Mastic gum at her local Greek store. If you do not have a Greek store available to you, you can of course buy Mastic gum on amazon.com. Here is a link you can use to obtain this spice: https://www.amazon.com/Krinos-Mastic-... The full printed recipe for my mother's Greek Vasilopita can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/antigon... I'm sure my mom's Vasilopita will be the best Greek Vasilopita you have ever tasted in your life!!!! Enjoy!!! Here is an online source I found about Mastic Gum: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti... Feel free to follow me on instagram   / greekgardeninggirl   I am also on facebook at   / greekgardeninggirl   Introduction - 0:00 Dry Ingredients - 1:06 Wet Ingredients - 7:50 How to Make Dough - 12:42 How to insert coins pt1 - 15:23 Dividing Bread - 16:25 How to insert coins pt2 - 20:09 Baking the Vasilopita - 21:06 How to Store the Bread - 26:34 Tasting the Bread/End - 26:53