UKRAINIAN KOLECHKA
Make and share this Ukrainian Kolechka recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Olha7397
Categories Dessert
Time 35m
Yield 24 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Cream butter and cream cheese until fluffy.
- Beat in vanilla extract.
- Combine flour and salt; add in fourths to butter mixture, blending well after each addition.
- Chill dough until easy to handle.
- Roll dough to 3/8 thickness on a floured surface.
- Cut out 2-inch circles or other shapes.
- Place on ungreased baking sheets.
- Make a"thumb print" about 1/4 inch deep in each cookie.
- Fill with jam.
- Bake at 350 F 10 to 15 minutes, or until delicately browned on edges.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 148.3, Fat 11.1, SaturatedFat 7, Cholesterol 30.7, Sodium 131.2, Carbohydrate 10.2, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 0.1, Protein 2.1
UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS BREAD KOLACH
Makes 1 beautiful twisted and stacked golden bread, about 9 inches across and 5 to 6 inches tall. Traditional feast on Christmas Eve January 6 consists of twelve courses, all meatless, a form of fasting while celebrating. Starts of first with ritual gruel, a cross between soup and gruel called kutia, made of simmered wheat berries flavored with honey and black poppy seeds, meatless borshch, varenyky filled with potato or cheese and served with mushroom sauce, and fish served several ways. On the table along with wineglasses and candles, is a Christmas bread called kolach, elaborately twisted and braided. It's traditionally presented as three breads stacked one on top of the other and topped by a candle. The bread is moist and rich with butter and eggs and has a slightly denser-than-brioche texture. This recipes makes one very beautiful bread. To make the traditional three breads, see the NOTE below. This bread keeps well.
Provided by Olha7397
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 1h30m
Yield 1 kolach
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm water, then add 1 teaspoon of the sugar and stir well. Set aside. Note: Make sure your yeast is fresh. If it does not break the surface with little bubbles the yeast is old, start over with fresh yeast.
- In a large bowl, dissolve the remaining sugar in the warm milk. Stir in the melted butter, salt, and eggs, then add 2 cups of the flour and stir until smooth. Add the yeast mixture and stir it well, always stirring in the same direction. Add 4 to 5 cups more flour, 1 cup at a time, stirring and turning to incorporate it; when the dough becomes too difficult to mix, turn it out onto a well floured surface and knead for 5 minutes or more, adding flour if necessary, until firm (not soft), smooth, and elastic.
- Place the dough in a large clean bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let rise in a fairly warm place (about 70 F.) until doubled in volume, about 3 hours.
- Pull the dough away from the sides of the bowl and deflate it, then cover and let rise again until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Butter or grease a 9-inch round cake pan or cast iron frying pan (or a 9- or 10-inch flan ring set on a baking sheet).
- Turn the risen dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Cut into 6 equal pieces (first cut the dough in half, then cut each piece into 3).
- Set 4 pieces aside, lightly covered.
- Roll the remaining 2 pieces out under your palms into ropes about 33 to 36 inches long. Lay 1 piece diagonally across the other at the center of each, then, working from that center point, twine the ropes around each other, toward each end, to make a long coiled rope. Make a circle of the rope, pressing the ends together, and place it in the buttered pan or ring.
- Roll out the remaining 4 pieces of dough into 24-inch lengths and, following the instructions above, use them to make 2 coiled ropes. Then use the same technique to twist the 2 coils around each other to make a DOUBLE coil. Lay the coil inside the dough in the pan to form a circle, and pinch the ends together, trimming them at an angle as necessary to make a neat joint. There will be a small circular gap in the center of the bread. Cover and let rise until almost doubled in volume, about 45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, place a rack in the lower third of the oven. If you have a baking stone or unglazed quarry tiles, place them on the rack. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Brush the top of the risen dough generously with egg wash. Transfer to the stone, tiles, or a baking sheet and bake for about 1 hour. The bread should have a rich golden crusts and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. (The bread starts to turn golden very early in the baking because of the egg wash. This does not mean the bread has baked, but it may tempt you to take it out too early. Be sure to use the "hollow tap" test to make sure it has baked through.) Let the bread stand for at least 1 hour on a wire rack to firm up before slicing.
- NOTE: To make the traditional three breads, triple the recipe as follows: Increase the yeast to 4 teaspoons and the milk to 5 cups; triple the quantities of sugar, butter, eggs, and flour. Divide the risen dough into three, then shape each loaf separately. You will probably have to bake them in two batches unless your oven is very large, since only two breads will fit on a regular rack. The breads must be completely cool and firm before being stacked-make them a day ahead if possible.
- TO TEST IF BREAD HAS RISEN ENOUGH, use the "poke test" Press a moistened finger briefly into the dough. If the dent stays dented it's ready. This tests especially useful when you're trying to determine if shaped breads or rolls are ready to be put in the oven.
- TO TEST IF A LOAF HAS BAKED ENOUGH, tap on the bottom of the loaf to see if it sounds hollow, and then use the "pinch test"" Pinch the loaf at the corners or at the bottom edge. It should feel firm, not soft. If it stills feels soft, place it back in the oven for another five or ten minutes. When baking pan loaves, take them out of the pans to test them. If you need to bake them a little longer and you have a baking stone or unglazed quarry tiles in your oven, bake them straight on the hot surface, rather than putting them back in the pans.
UKRAINIAN OVERNIGHT PASKA OR KOLACH OR ROLLS
Make and share this Ukrainian Overnight Paska or Kolach or Rolls recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Olha7397
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 1h5m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a small mixing bowl, combine yeast and water, stirring until dissolved. Add 2/3 cup of flour and beat till smooth. Cover with a towel and set aside until doubled and bubbling about 45 minutes.
- In a large mixing bowl, blend milk, sugar, salt, lemon rind. Stir in butter and eggs. Beat in yeast mixture and 4 cups of flour until smooth. Gradually, add enough flour to make a SOFT, workable dough. (You might need less if using bread flour).
- Turn out and knead until satiny about 15 minutes. Place dough in large greased bowl ( I use two large bowls because this dough rises a lot.).
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap and towel. Set in a warm, protected spot overnight.
- Next morning punch dough down, knead 3 minutes, cover and let rest 10 to 15 minutes.
- Shape into rolls or braids or pan bread or Paska.
- Place on a greased sheet or pans or (coffee cans for paska)(fill paska 2/3 full).
- Butter coffee cans well and sprinkle with fine bread crumbs. I like to spray pans with vegetable spray and sprinkle with bread crumbs. Let dough rise for about 30 to 40 minutes.
- Brush with egg wash. Bake 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until brown. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
- Adjust baking time for rolls or kolach.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 832.4, Fat 29.9, SaturatedFat 16.9, Cholesterol 259.1, Sodium 439.5, Carbohydrate 119.9, Fiber 3.5, Sugar 25.7, Protein 19.9
UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS KOLACH
The top is glazed and sprinkled with poppy seeds. Its round shape gives it its name--kolo, a circle--and may symbolize eternity.
Provided by Olha7397
Categories Breads
Time 1h30m
Yield 3 Kolach
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Dissolve 1 teaspoon sugar in water and sprinkle yeast over it.
- Add 1 tablespoon sugar, stir, and let stand 10 minutes.
- Combine yeast with milk, lightly beaten eggs, salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, oil, and 3 cups sifted flour.
- Beat until smooth.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place until light and bubbly, about 1 hour.
- Mix in remaining flour and knead until smooth and elastic and dough leaves the side of the bowl easily.
- Form into a ball and place in lightly oiled bowl, turning once to oil the top.
- Cover with towel and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk.
- Punch down and allow to rise again slightly.
- Divide dough into 3 parts.
- On a floured work surface, divide one part into thirds, rolling each into a rope 8 to 10 inches long and 1 1/2 inch thick.
- Braid together, starting at the middle, and turn ends under.
- Repeat to make other two loaves and place on buttered baking sheets.
- Do not crowd, since loaves will double in size.
- Cover with damp towel and let rise until almost double.
- Brush with egg glaze and sprinkle with poppy seeds.
- Bake in preheated oven at 375 degree F.
- at least 1 hour, until golden.
- Test by rapping the bottom; there should be a nice hollow sound.
- Cool on racks.
- Makes 3 medium loaves.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1570.3, Fat 26.1, SaturatedFat 7.4, Cholesterol 234.3, Sodium 2487.1, Carbohydrate 279.5, Fiber 10.6, Sugar 16.1, Protein 48.9
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