Kulich

Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter with this sweet bread. Kulich, a bread in the tradition of brioche, is a tall loaf, shaped rather like a puffy mushroom and traditionally decorated with strips of dough that form the Cyrillic alphabet initials for the words “Christ is Risen.” If this seems like a lot of significance placed on what is just a loaf of bread, consider that a homebaked loaf used as part of an Easter celebration would have been taken to church to be blessed by t