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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE WIELKANOC-2 B "25 Mar 88" 1989
- .RZ "BABKA WIELKANOCNA" "Easter Baba"
- .IH "Makes 1 baba"
- .IG "1 cup" "milk" "250 ml"
- .IG "3\(12 cups" "all-purpose flour" "350 g"
- .IG "2 tsp" "active dry yeast" "14 g"
- (two packages)
- .IG "\(14 cup" "lukewarm water" "60 ml"
- .IG "2/3 cup" "sugar" "150 g"
- .IG "2 tsp" "salt" "10 ml"
- .IG "15" "egg yolks"
- .IG "1 tsp" "vanilla extract" "5 ml"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "almond extract" "1 ml"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "melted butter" "120 ml"
- .IG "\(34 cup" "mixed candied lemon and orange peels," "100 g"
- chopped
- .IG "\(12 cup" "chopped almonds" "100 g"
- .IG "1/3 cup" "raisins" "50 g"
- .IG "" "blanched almond halves"
- .IG "" "bread crumbs"
- .SK 1
- Scald milk and pour into a large bowl. Slowly add \(34 cup flour to the hot
- milk and beat thoroughly. Cool.
- .SK 2
- Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water 5 minutes, then add
- one spoonful of the sugar and
- let stand 5 minutes. Add to cooled milk mixture and beat well.
- .SK 3
- Cover and let rise until double in bulk.
- .SK 4
- Add salt to egg yolks. Beat until thick and lemon-coloured (about 5 minutes).
- Add remaining sugar and extracts and continue beating.
- Combine egg mixture with milk mixture, beating thoroughly. Add remaining
- flour and mix well.
- .SK 5
- Knead 10 minutes in bowl. Add butter and continue kneading 10 more minutes,
- or until dough leaves fingers. Add candied peel, almonds, and raisins.
- Knead to mix well.
- .SK 6
- Let rise until double in bulk. Punch down and let rise again.
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- .SK 7
- Generously grease a
- .AB "12-inch" "30-cm"
- fluted tub pan. Press almond halves around sides
- and bottom of pan. Coat with bread crumbs.
- .SK 8
- Punch down dough and put into prepared pan. Dough should fill a third of the
- pan. Let rise 1 hour, or until dough fills pan.
- .SK 9
- Bake at
- .TE 350 175
- about 50 minutes, or until hollow sounding when tapped on top.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- About 3 hours.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Original recipe passed down through the generations and translated from
- Polish into English by
- Edward Chrzanowski
- MFCF, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu or {decvax,att,utzoo}!watmath!echrzanowski
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