Baking Tutorial For Ukraine - The Best Easter Bread Recipe Known as Paska
Learn how to make Ukrainian Paska, also known as Easter Bread, with this calming step-by-step tutorial. Learn the simplest, most full-proof way of shaping and baking a beautiful loaf of traditional Paska in your kitchen. #paska #ukraine #baking #bread #easter #tutorial
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In Ukraine bread is the symbol of life.
It represents peace and friendship. Forgiveness and enduring memory. Since ancient times bread has been highly honored as a gift from above.
For generations, Paska has been the bread made in kitchens throughout the regions of Ukraine on Good Friday. The timing of Easter, the Christian holiday, more or less coincides with the pre-Christian ancient festival of spring called Velykden. For this reason, the celebration of Easter incorporates many ancient rituals, including the making of Paska.
A Ukrainian ethnographer, Stepan Kylymnyk, in his book Calendar Year in Ukrainian Folklore (vol. 2, 1959), described an old custom of baking three loaves. The purpose of the first was for the sun and the sky. They believed that the sun would give health and long life to their family members. The second loaf for the deceased and a third for the living people.
Loaves are often decorated, their symbolism belonging to spring themes. Nature, resurrection, and rebirth. Crosses are the most prevalent adornment for Paska, its significance in Christianity is obvious. In pre-Christian times, when people based their beliefs on nature and its phenomena, the cross symbolized the four seasons or four cardinal directions.
The bread itself is rich in butter and eggs. Round and tall, and baked in a variety of round baking pans, often in coffee cans they have saved throughout the year. While this recipe is simple, a variety of aromatics can be used…my favorite being orange zest. Also consider adding ginger, saffron, vanilla, or rum. Its texture resembles, for me, a mix between cake and bread.
While the dough rises, it is important for Ukrainians that they quiet their homes.
Right now, the United Nations estimates that over 9 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homeland because of war.
When I watch the footage emerging from these border crossings, my gaze stays longer on the images of grandmothers. Many in wheelchairs, pushed mile after mile, bundled under blankets often covered in a blanket of snow. These women should instead be covered in a dusting of flour, surrounded by family, carrying on the tradition of Paska baking this Easter season.
I believe so strongly in the power of food and its ability to connect cultures and unite us as people. The way taste and smell can make us both wistful for the past and hopeful for the future. This Spring, I’ll be foregoing my own traditions for the baking of Paska. I will quietly knead, shape, rise, and bake what so many generations of Ukrainian women have passed down through the generations. Will you join me in keeping this tradition alive on their behalf this year?
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Czech Vánočka Braided Christmas Bread: Enriched Yeast Dough with Fruit & Nutmeg
While called a cake, this simple Czech Christmas delight is a lightly sweetened, buttery, enriched, brioche-style yeast bread scented with nutmeg and dotted with dried fruit. This beautiful, artistic-looking braided bread creates a showstopper of a centerpiece for your holiday table. Slice and eat it for breakfast topped with butter, jam, and powdered sugar. Use it for French toast served with maple syrup and powdered sugar. Make and serve it during the holidays, give as gifts, or enjoy it any time of year. This video shows it all including each of the stacked 3 braids in detail!
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00:00 Summary & inspiration of this recipe with gorgeous pics!
00:59 Visual of ingredients, activate the yeast, & plump the raisins
02:53 Make the dough & knead
04:46 Drain raisins (pat dry), knead them into the dough, & allow dough to rise
06:59 Prepare baking sheet & divide dough into 9 equal pieces
08:27 Roll 4 dough pieces into ropes & form the 1st braid (4 ropes)
11:33 Roll 3 dough pieces into ropes & form the 2nd braid (3 ropes)
13:12 Roll 2 dough pieces into ropes & form the 3rd braid/twist (2 ropes)
14:51 Brush on egg wash & add almond slices
16:06 Check out the final product & add final touches of butter & powdered sugar
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My Family's Recipe for Kolache (A Slovak Walnut Roll)
Every year for Christmas, my family enjoys this recipe for kolache, a Slovak walnut roll. We also have it at Easter, but Christmas is when it's the real star of the show.
Typically, we eat this kolache at all times of the day. At Christmas, we serve it with dessert, but you'll also find us enjoying a slice at breakfast or lunch too. Gotta love those recipes you can eat all day!
Learn how to make the dough and roll it all up with the filling of walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon. It's pretty easy to make, but it tastes wonderful!
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Learn how to make Moldovan Colac (Braided Bread)! | Embassy Festival 2020
Colac is a traditional Moldavan braided bread, in a form of a ring, made for special occasions or holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, weddings, baptizing, funerals and festivals. It is a custom symbolizing immortality, prosperity and good luck. It is said that offering and receiving Colac connects with invisible thread the soul of the hosts with that of the guests.
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Making Hungarian Easter Kalács | Bread Around the World | Ep 6
In this episode of Bread Around the World, we are making Kalács, a beautiful braided bread from Hungary.
This is traditionally served during Easter during dinner time.
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INGREDIENTS:
--- Dough ---
- 500g Bread Flour
- 1 cup (240g) Whole Milk
- 1/3 cup (75g) Sugar
- 1 + 3/4 tsp (6g) Active Dry Yeast
- 1 Egg (room temp)
- 4 tbsp (57g) Unsalted Softened Butter
--- Egg Wash ---
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp (5g) Water