Kulich (Russian Easter cake)

Kulich is a traditional Russian cake made from yeast dough and cooked for the Easter day. It has a shape of cylinder, usually contains flavour additives (raisins, candied fruit, candied lemon peel or dried orange) and can be coloured with saffron. The top of kulich is decorated with icing or confectioners' sugar. Kulich is blessed in church along with colored eggs and is the first meal to break the fast.

A sample recipe:

Ingredients:

Preparation:

Soak raisins in water at least for 2 hours. Solve yeast in 1 1/2 cup of warm milk, add half of necessary flour, mix well and put into warm place for the dough to take a rise. When dough increases in volume in twice add salt and yolks mixed with sugar vanilla and butter. Add beaten up white of eggs and flour. Mix it well. Dough should be not too thick but well mixed. Put the dough into warm place again. When dough increases in volume in twice add raisins and chopped almond. Mix well. Put dough into baking pans. (around ? of a pan) Pans should have bottom covered with oiled paper circle and inner sides wet with oil and sprinkled with flower. Leave the filled pans in a warm place. When dough increases in volume at 3/4 of pan's volume grease it with beaten yolk and put into the pre-heat oven F. Bake for 50-60 minutes. Let kulich cool. Decorate its top side with icing.

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