Name: Easter Baba (Baba Wielkanocna)
Cuisine: Poland
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; Bread crumbs; 15 egg yolks; 1 cup milk; ½ cup melted butter; 2 yeast cakes; 1 cup chopped citron, orange; ¼ cup lukewarm milk; 1 cup chopped almonds and lemon peel; 2 teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon almond; 1 teaspoon vanilla; ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Treasured Polish Recipes for Americans

By Polanie Club

Published 1948

About

Ingredients

1 cup milk
3 cups flour
¼ cup

Method

Scald the milk. Slowly add three-quarters cup flour to hot milk and beat thoroughly. Cool. Disolve yeast in quarter cup of milk and a tablespoon of sugar and add to cooled mixture. Beat well. Let rise until double in bulk. Add salt to eggs and beat until thick and lemon-colored. Add sugar and continue to beat. Add to sponge with flavoring and remaining flour. Knead for ten minutes. Add butter a