🇺🇦 Ukraine recipe
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The crown of the Ukrainian Easter table: a tall, cylindrical loaf of enriched dough rich with egg yolks, butter, sugar, and orange zest. Traditionally baked in a deep tin the Saturday before Easter, decorated with braided dough crosses and rosettes, then carried to church in a linen-lined basket to be blessed at dawn on Velykden'.
Prep4 hrs + overnight sponge
Cook45 mins
Serves10
Difficultyhard
Ingredients
- 500 g strong bread flour, plus extra for shaping
- 150 ml whole milk, lukewarm
- 7 g instant dry yeast
- 6 large egg yolks
- 1 large whole egg, for the dough
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 100 g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- 75 g golden raisins, soaked in warm water for 15 minutes and drained
- 1 large egg, beaten with 1 tbsp milk, for glazing
- 2 tbsp pearl sugar or coarse sugar, for the top (optional)
Method
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 320
- Protein
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 48 g
- Fat
- 11 g
