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Easter has its culinary embodiment - this is Easter cake, or paska. But every year the housewives try to diversify Easter pastries, add something new to the Easter cakes and make the holiday table richer and more beautiful. There is nothing wrong with this: the pursuit of beauty - spiritual and physical - reflects the values of the Christian religion. How is baking related to Easter, what was Kulich before and what else do housewives bake for Easter? Answers to questions and top 5 recipes for the most popular Easter baking 2020 - in our article.
How Easter cake is connected with Easter.
There is a special bread that is sacred for Easter. It is called artos (from the Greek "dough that rises") and it is associated with the apostolic period. Christ broke the bread into pieces and served it to the apostles at the Last Supper, from where the tradition came to bake butter bread for Easter to share it with his family. Artos is shared in the church and distributed to believers as a reminder that we are with Christ.
Long tradition.
Kulich was not always what he is now. It is difficult to imagine even at the beginning of the last century paski in molds with multi-colored powders. At first, Easter cake was just round hearth bread. But even in ancient times, they tried to decorate it, prepared from the whitest flour and the best ingredients, even when it was an ordinary loaf. This is because Easter is the main holiday in the Orthodox Church, a triumph for which Easter cake should be matched.
Modern traditions.
In our time, housewives are happy to share baking recipes, so European pastries, traditional for the Catholic Church, are added to our usual recipes. French Easter brioches, Italian panettone, and Viennese cake are also baked. But on Easter 2020, most people want to adhere to Slavic traditions. The most popular pastries will be rich, sweet and fragrant buns according to home grandmother's recipes.
Top 5 Easter Baking Recipes 2020
1. Easter cake. The traditional recipe.
Each family has its own tradition, but if you do not have a family recipe, we offer you a home-made cake recipe that you can cook for the first time.
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Ingredients.
For the test:
• 200 ml of warm milk
• 25g. fresh yeast
• 200 g sugar
• 500-550 g flour
• 100 g fat sour cream (25%)
• 4 eggs
• 30 g of vegetable oil
• 0.5 tsp salt
• Raisins at will.
For glaze:
• 100g. powdered sugar
• 0.5 teaspoon of gelatin + 1 tbsp. spoon of water
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
All ingredients should be at room temperature. First, prepare the dough: pour warm milk into the pan, add yeast, a tablespoon of sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour, the consistency of sour cream should be obtained. The lumps will disperse themselves, they do not need to be broken. Cover and set in a warm place for 20-30 minutes. Opara should increase 2 times.
In a deep bowl, mix the eggs, the remaining sugar and salt, with a whisk or mixer, beat in a lush foam, add soft butter and sour cream, mix and add the dough. Pour flour into a large bowl, make a depression, pour in the mixture and mix. Then sprinkle flour on the cutting table and here we already knead the dough with our hands. When a uniform lump is already obtained from the dough, add vegetable oil and knead with oil so as not to add excess flour. The dough should be soft, elastic and keep its shape well. Knead for 10-15 minutes. We put the dough in a large bowl, cover with a film, you can cover with a towel, and put in a warm place. It should become fluffy and increase in volume by 2 times. It takes 1.5-2 hours. You can fill out the forms. From this amount of dough you get 3-4 medium-sized Easter cakes. Roll each piece into a ball. Fill out the form by about half or less. Leave in a warm place for 2 hours, the dough should come up and fill the mold, not reaching 2-3 cm to the edge. We bake at a temperature of 160 degrees below average, the tops can be covered with parchment so as not to burn. It takes about 30 minutes, check the readiness with a wooden stick.
Cooking the icing.
Mix half a teaspoon of gelatin and 1 tablespoon of water, leave to swell for 10 minutes. In a saucepan, mix 100 g of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of water and a teaspoon of lemon juice, dissolve over low heat. When the syrup boils, remove from heat, add the swollen gelatin and mix until smooth. Beat with a mixer for 4-5 minutes - it turns out the air mass. We decorate Easter cakes with glaze immediately so that the glaze does not harden.
2. Butter roll with poppy seeds. The tradition of our grandmothers.
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We use yeast dough for Easter cake from the previous recipe. It is convenient that several types of baking can be prepared from one dough. Skillful housewives can make a roll in the shape of a wreath to decorate the festive table. This recipe needs the same amount of dough.
Cooking poppy seed filling.
Ingredients:
• Dry poppy 500 g.
• 5 tablespoons of sugar
• Butter 100g.
• 1 egg white
Pour poppy seeds into the pan, rinse like cereals. Fill with water and cook over low heat for 1.5-2 hours. Rinse again 2 times with cold water and decant through gauze. We tighten the cheesecloth, tie and let lie down so that the glass water. Now twist the already cold poppy. We push it into the meat grinder tightly so that it is well frayed. Add sugar, soft butter and egg white to the grated poppy, mix well.
When the dough is ready, we form rolls: Divide the dough into two parts, roll it into a rectangle, lay out the poppy seed filling and roll it into roll. Cover with a film, leave for 15 minutes, so that they slightly rise. Lubricate the top with a beaten egg and bake in the oven for 190 degrees 30 minutes.
3. Easter cookies with icing.
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Cookies can be made in the shape of dyes. It will decorate the table and add a festive mood. Children will like to cook these cookies with you.
Ingredients:
• 90g. cold butter
• 75g. powdered sugar
• 175 grams of flour
• 1 egg
• Vanilla
• A pinch of salt
Grind all the ingredients first by hand, then with a submersible blender, cover with cling film and send to the refrigerator for 30 minutes. When the dough is cooled, roll it into a thin 3mm layer. Cut out cookies with a cookie cutter and bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Glaze:
• 1 protein
• 200 grams of powdered sugar
• Lemon juice 1 tsp
Whip all the ingredients with a mixer. Glaze can be painted with special food colors, dividing into several parts. And then using imagination and creativity, cover the cookies with icing.
4. Curd bagels
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Cottage cheese is also a frequent product in traditional Easter recipes. Instead of curd paska, you can cook bagels.
Ingredients:
• Cottage cheese 400 g
• Oil 250 g
• Flour 400 g
• Sugar 150 g
• Vanilla sugar 1 tsp
• Baking powder 2 tsp
Knead the butter and cottage cheese with a fork, add the sifted flour, baking powder, mix everything and knead the dough with your hands on the table; cover with a film and put in the refrigerator for an hour. We divide the dough into 2 parts. Sprinkle the surface with flour, mix the dough and roll into a circle. Sprinkle with half the sugar mixed with vanilla, and roll the sugar into the dough with a rolling pin. The layer should be thin, 1 mm. Cut like a cake into triangles and twist from thick to thin, squeeze a little so that the dough does not stick. Put the bagels on a baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle with sugar again. Bake for 20-25 minutes. With the second part of the test, we do the same. Bagels are soft, sweet and melt in your mouth.
5. Rum woman
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Grandma is also a bakery of Slavic origin, which is very loved by children. Rum grandmothers can diversify pastries for Easter 2020.
Cooking yeast dough.
Ingredients for Dough:
• Warm milk 150 ml
• Live yeast 25 g.
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 tsp of flour
We mix these ingredients and put in a warm place for 20 minutes.
• 50 g of raisins
• 100 g sugar
• 1 egg and 1 yolk
• 400 g flour
• 100 g butter at room temperature
• A bag of vanilla sugar
• A pinch of salt
Put the eggs in a bowl, add a pinch of salt, sugar, vanilla sugar, mix. Now pour the cooked dough here. Add the flour, first half, mix, then the second half. Gradually add oil, knead on the surface with your hands. You can grease the surface with oil, but do not add more flour. Knead raisins in the dough. Put the dough in a bowl and leave it in a warm place for two hours. Mix again and cook the molds. You can use molds for cupcakes or for small apiaries. Lubricate all sides of the molds with a small amount of vegetable oil. Fill the forms with balls of dough, cover with a napkin to make the dough fit. Bake at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Cooking impregnation
Ingredients:
• 200 g of water
• 100 g sugar
• 2 tablespoons of rum (liquor)
Mix the ingredients, bring to a boil, let cool and add rum. Dip each grandmother in syrup. First, once, lay the dibs on a bowl, then the second time, so that they are well saturated.
Glaze:
• 200 g icing sugar
• 2-3 tablespoons of water
Mix the powdered sugar and water. We cover the headstock with glaze from above and let the glaze harden.
Have a good preparation for Easter! And for the festive service we have beautiful head scarves and Easter baskets for your delicious Easter cakes.
