Six recipes culichy from Daria Zvek

The sweetest memories always come from childhood. Like the best Easter cake recipes my mom used to use. Carefully carved out of newspapers or hand-written, they have passed through years and generations.



At that time, I did not know that their author was the favorite queen of Soviet pastries, Daria Yakovlevna Tsvek. On the eve of the Bright Feast of the Resurrection of Christ "Site" I collected a selection of recipes from Daria Yakovlevna.

Today we invite readers to use time-tested recipes again to bake light, incredibly fluffy and at the same time hearty cakes from “sweet Daria”.

Kulich "The Secret" by Daria Tsvek

The ingredients

• 1kg flour
• 400g milk
• 10 yolks
• 100g pressed yeast
• 200g butter or margarine
• 300g sugar
• 100g raisins
• 0.5 tsp salt
• lemon peel

Preparation

1. Dilute the yeast in warm milk, add 100 grams of sugar and 20 grams of flour.
2. Stir and put in a warm place until the opara increases in volume by 2 times.
3. After that, add the rest of the sugar, yolks, raisins, peel, salt and flour.
4. Mix the dough, at the end add melted but chilled fat.
5. Mess the dough for about 10 minutes until it begins to fall behind.
6. Leave the dough in a warm place so that it grows 2 times.
7. Fill in a third of the form. Let the dough double again.
8. Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake a cake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 170 degrees. Bake another 50 minutes.
9. From the listed ingredients, 3 cakes with a diameter of 18, 20 and 25 centimeters are obtained.
10. Bon appetit!

Pokutsky Kulich

Pokutia is a historical area in the west of Ukraine between the rivers Prut and Cheremos (now part of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine).

The ingredients

• 1kg flour
• 1 tbsp milk
• 15 yolks
• 100g pressed yeast
• 300g butter or margarine
• 400g sugar
• 100g raisins
• 0.5 tsp salt
• vanilla

Glaze ingredients

• 2 proteins
• 200g powdered sugar
• juice
• vanilla

Preparation

1. Dilute in warm milk yeast with a tablespoon of sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour. Put it in a warm place.
2. Mix yolks, sugar and vanilla in a pan. Put this pan in a large pot of boiling water. Beat the yolks until you get a homogeneous mass, let it cool.
3. Add the yeast mixture, pour into the flour container, add the yolks. Mix the dough.
4. At the very end, add the melted fat, stir until the fat is evenly distributed throughout the dough.
5. Add the washed raisins, stir. Cover and put it in a warm place to make the dough fit.
6. Move the dough into an oiled mold, filling it with two-thirds. Cover and set it up to fit.
7. Prepare the icing. To do this, rub the proteins with a spoonful of powdered sugar to uniformity, add lemon juice, vanilla.
8. Lubricate the cake with proteins and bake in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees 45 minutes.

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Kulich "Ordinary"

The ingredients

• 500g flour
• 1 tbsp milk
• 4 yolks
• 50g pressed yeast
• 100g butter
• 100g sugar
• 0.5 tsp salt
• vanilla

Preparation

1. Dilute in warm milk yeast, a tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of flour. When the opara begins to wander, pour it into the dishes with flour.
2. Add the sugar-grinded yolks, salti and blended dough.
3. At the end, pour the melted butter. Mix again so that the dough absorbs all the fat.
4. Cover the dough and put it in a warm place. When the dough rises, put it in your head. Send part of the dough into a mold (filling it in two-thirds) covered with parchment paper.
5. Leave the dough to fit.
6. After that, lubricate the top of the cake with an egg and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees for 45 minutes.

Lviv Kulich

Test ingredients

• 750g flour
• 1.5 tbsp milk
• 8 yolks
• 100g pressed yeast
• 150g butter or margarine
• 150g sugar
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 50g raisins
• 50g candied
• 3 almonds

Ingredients for syrup

• 200g sugar
• 1.5 tables of water
• juice and peel with half a lemon
• droplet

Glaze ingredients

• 200g sugar
• 6 tbsp water
• 1 tsp butter
• 0.5 tsp vinegar
• droplet
• juice

Preparation

1. Dilute a tablespoon of sugar in warm milk. When the opara begins to wander, pour it into a container of flour. Ambassadori, add the sugar-sweetened yolks and vanilla. Mix the dough.
2. At the very end, add melted fat, messes, until the dough absorbs it.
3. Add raisins, candies, grated almonds, stir and put the dough in a warm place to fit.
4. Put part of the test in the form, filling it a third of the height. Leave it in a warm place.
5. Smear the egg and send to the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 40 minutes.
6. In the meantime, make the syrup and glaze. For syrup, mix with water sugar, lemon juice, rum, zest. For glaze, pour the sugar with hot water, add vinegar and boil to the threads. Then take it off the fire and rub it with butter. When the syrup starts to turn white, pour lemon juice.
7. Ready cakes on the second day pricked in several places with a wooden stick and soak in syrup. After that, icing it.

Kulich in a hurry

The ingredients

• 500g flour
• 1 tbsp milk
• 3 eggs
• 100g butter
• 50g yeast
• 100g raisins
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 100g sugar
• half-peel

Preparation

1. Dilute a tablespoon of sugar in warm milk. When the opara begins to wander, pour it into a container of flour.
2. Add the sugar-sweetened eggs, peel, raisins.
3. At the very end of the mix, add the melted oil.
4. Put part of the test in the form, filling it a third of the height. Leave it in a warm place.
5. Smear the egg and send to the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 40 minutes.

Yeast cake with raisins from Daria Zvek

Test ingredients

• 1kg flour
• 1 tbsp milk
• 0.5 tbsp cream
• 8 yolks
• 2 proteins
• 250g margarine
• 100g raisins
• 300g sugar
• 100g pressed yeast
• vanillin

Glaze ingredients

• 100g powdered sugar
• egg-white
• lemon juice

Preparation

1. Yeast, a tablespoon of flour and a tablespoon of sugar stir in half a glass of warm milk.
2. Bring the rest of the milk to a boil, pour them 300 grams of flour and rub so that there are no lumps.
3. Rub the yolks with sugar and vanillin until white.
4. Pour the steam into the cooled steamed dough. Add the melted margarine. Stir the dough until it absorbs it.
5. Add raisins to the dough, mix the dough again, cover and put in a warm place.
6. Grease the molds and cover them with baking paper. When the dough fits, fill the forms up to two-thirds of the height. Let me come a little more and send to the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 30-40 minutes.
7. Cooled cakes were removed from the form, poured glaze and sprinkled with multi-colored sprinkle.

True family warmth and authentic culinary traditions are transmitted in recipes from mother to daughter, from grandmother to granddaughter. The best recipes for Easter cakes, which we shared today, will give you a sense of a real holiday, even if you have to spend Easter day at home.