Baking Tutorial For Ukraine - The Best Easter Bread Recipe Known as Paska
Learn how to make Ukrainian Paska, also known as Easter Bread, with this calming step-by-step tutorial. Learn the simplest, most full-proof way of shaping and baking a beautiful loaf of traditional Paska in your kitchen. #paska #ukraine #baking #bread #easter #tutorial
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In Ukraine bread is the symbol of life.
It represents peace and friendship. Forgiveness and enduring memory. Since ancient times bread has been highly honored as a gift from above.
For generations, Paska has been the bread made in kitchens throughout the regions of Ukraine on Good Friday. The timing of Easter, the Christian holiday, more or less coincides with the pre-Christian ancient festival of spring called Velykden. For this reason, the celebration of Easter incorporates many ancient rituals, including the making of Paska.
A Ukrainian ethnographer, Stepan Kylymnyk, in his book Calendar Year in Ukrainian Folklore (vol. 2, 1959), described an old custom of baking three loaves. The purpose of the first was for the sun and the sky. They believed that the sun would give health and long life to their family members. The second loaf for the deceased and a third for the living people.
Loaves are often decorated, their symbolism belonging to spring themes. Nature, resurrection, and rebirth. Crosses are the most prevalent adornment for Paska, its significance in Christianity is obvious. In pre-Christian times, when people based their beliefs on nature and its phenomena, the cross symbolized the four seasons or four cardinal directions.
The bread itself is rich in butter and eggs. Round and tall, and baked in a variety of round baking pans, often in coffee cans they have saved throughout the year. While this recipe is simple, a variety of aromatics can be used…my favorite being orange zest. Also consider adding ginger, saffron, vanilla, or rum. Its texture resembles, for me, a mix between cake and bread.
While the dough rises, it is important for Ukrainians that they quiet their homes.
Right now, the United Nations estimates that over 9 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homeland because of war.
When I watch the footage emerging from these border crossings, my gaze stays longer on the images of grandmothers. Many in wheelchairs, pushed mile after mile, bundled under blankets often covered in a blanket of snow. These women should instead be covered in a dusting of flour, surrounded by family, carrying on the tradition of Paska baking this Easter season.
I believe so strongly in the power of food and its ability to connect cultures and unite us as people. The way taste and smell can make us both wistful for the past and hopeful for the future. This Spring, I’ll be foregoing my own traditions for the baking of Paska. I will quietly knead, shape, rise, and bake what so many generations of Ukrainian women have passed down through the generations. Will you join me in keeping this tradition alive on their behalf this year?
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Paska Bread (Easter Bread from the PA Coal Region)
This is a wonderful traditional Paska Easter egg bread made here in the Coal Region. Fairly simple and delicious!
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1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
6 tbls sugar, divided
2 cups warm water (110° to 115°), divided
1/2 cup nonfat dry milk powder
7-8 cups all-purpose flour, divided
3 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 tsp tablespoon salt
EGG GLAZE:
1 egg
2 tablespoons water
In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in 1 cup warm water. Let stand for 5 minutes. Add remaining water. Beat in the milk powder and 3 cups flour until smooth. Cover and let rise in a warm place until bubbly, about 20 minutes. Add eggs, butter, salt and remaining sugar; mix well. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 8-10 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half and set one portion aside. Divide remaining portion in half; press each portion into a well-greased 10-in. springform pan. Divide reserved dough into six balls. Shape each ball into a 30-in. rope; make two braids of three ropes each. Place a braid around the edge of each pan, forming a circle. Trim ends of braids, reserving dough scraps. Pinch ends of braids to seal. Shape scraps into two long thin ropes; form into rosettes or crosses. Place one decoration on the center of each loaf. Cover and let rise until doubles, about 1 hour.
In a small bowl, beat egg and water; brush over dough. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. Makes 1 Loaf.
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Paska is a kind of Ukrainian bread made at Easter with a special ingredient -- saffron. Watch the Observer's Jodie Valade make her Grandma Mozarowsky's family recipe.
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Easter Bread / Paska - Easy & Delicious
Here is an easy to follow recipe for tasty Easter Bread or Paska that anyone can make. Hope you enjoy!
Ingredients:
1/3 cup flour
1 cup boiling milk
1/2 cup luke warm water
2 tsp sugar
2 tbs yeast
10 egg yolks
2 full eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup melted butter
1 tsp salt
1 tbs vanilla
6 cups flour (approx)
egg wash (one egg beaten with one tbs milk)
butter for the forms
How To Make Traditional Easter Bread From Scratch ll Paska recipe ll Traditional Easter Bread
How to make traditional easter bread from scratch... It sounds complicated! but don't you worry,, in reality it's not complicated at all!! Described as a mix between an Italian Panettone and French Brioche, this traditional easter bread or paska and kulich refer to an Easter bread, glazed with a light sugar icing and sprinkles. Traditionally cooked and eaten at Orthodox Easter. It's so MOIST, FLUFFY AND TASTY!
So let's celebrate Easter and let's make this traditional easter bread from scratch at home!!
INGREDIENTS:
For the bread:
- 20 gr yeast
- 500 ml milk
- 1 kg all-purpose flour
- 250 gr sugar
- 250 gr dried fruits
- 8 egg yolks (room temperature)
- 20 gr vanilla sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp curcuma
- 80 gr sour cream
- 50 ml vegetable oil
- 100 gr butter (soften)
- Zest of 1 lemon
For the glaze:
- 3 egg whites (large)
- 350 gr powdered sugar
- 1tbsp lemon juice
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Paska Decorating 2
A How-to Video on decorating Paska, Ukrainian Easter Bread. An additional video from #1 video with more details, picking out the raisins, adding a bit of flour and placing an edging to the top before putting on the detailed decorations. Enjoy the video and all the learned tips from the past family members, mother Olga Kormilo and aunt Nadia Okrusko,( sisters maiden name Basisty). Traditions carried on by myself and sister Donna Kormilo.