How to Make Traditional Ukrainian Easter Paska Bread: Step-by-Step Recipe Guide
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Ingredients
For dough starter
???? Fresh yeast - 80 g
???? Milk - 300 ml
???? Flour - 40 g
???? Sugar - 1 tbsp.
For dough
???? Eggs - 6 pcs. (separates the 2 eggs' whites from the yolk, keep it for glazing)
???? Sugar - 280 ml
???? Butter - 150 g
???? Vanilla - 1 g
???? Flour - 400 g (+ needs more for kneading)
Stuffing (optional)
???? Rum aroma - 0.5 tsp.
???? Raisins - 50 g
For glaze
???? Egg whites - 5 pcs.
???? Sugar - 5 tbsp.
???? Sprinkles for decor
First, let's make the dough starter. The starter is needed to give the Paska bread a richer flavor and aroma, which is exactly what happens when the yeast works in the starter.
Fresh yeast should be kneaded by hand in a bowl. Add warm milk (not hot), then add flour, sugar. Mix everything well.
Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes.
Separate whites from yolks from 2 eggs. We need the yolks for the dough, leave the whites for later for the glaze.
Add the remaining eggs to the main bowl where we will knead the dough. Add the sugar and beat until light color (this will take about 7-10 minutes).
Melt the butter, cool, and add it to the mixture.
Add 1 g vanilla from the stick (or replace it with vanilla essence).
Add the flour, and beat with a mixer for another 5 minutes.
Add the sourdough mixture to the bowl and stir to combine.
I divided. the dough into 2 bowls, as I will be made with different flavors.
Cover with plastic wrap and leave to rise in size for 40 minutes. Add more flour and mix.
In one of the bowls add the aromatic rum and raisins and stir.
Grease a baking dish with oil/butter. Spread the dough over half of the mold. Cover with a towel and leave for another 40 minutes.
In a preheated oven, bake the paska bread for 20-30 minutes at 180ºC.
After 15 minutes of baking, pierce with a wooden stick to make sure the dough inside is not soggy. If the dough is still soggy inside, cover the top with foil to keep it from burning and continue baking.
Place egg whites in the bowl using the mixer and whisk it attachment until frothy.
Increase the speed to high and continue to beat the mixture until soft peaks form, about 5 minutes.
Decorate with glazing and sprinkles.
Smachnogo! Enjoy!
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?
This video tutorial and printable recipe are free, but my hope is that you’ll be moved to action to click the button above and donate to World Central Kitchen, a non-profit committed to providing warm meals in 12 Ukrainian cities and across the border into Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
UKRAINIAN EASTER PASKA BREAD
UKRAINIAN EASTER PASKA BREAD ! A Sweet Bread Thats great for times of Celebration. It's Lovely for sharing and social events, and is an Eastern Tradition !
Ingredients;
1 Cup Sugar
3 large Eggs
1/2 Cup Butter
2 Tbsp Fast acting Yeast
2 Tbsp Sour Cream (or) Buttermilk
All Purpose Flour
Salt
1/2 Cup 1/2 and 1/2 Cream
1/2 Cup Milk
Raisins
Icing Sugar and Milk
Paska Easter Bread! (Kulich)
This Paska bread isn't the regular boring Paska recipe (sorry baba)! It tastes amazing, made with white chocolate chips, macadamia nuts and dried cranberries. Everyone will love this Paska recipe. Also known as Kulich, it's an Eastern European dessert made for Easter.
For full recipe:
#paska #kulich #Easterbread
Watch Me Make Paska; The Best Recipe for Ukrainian Easter Bread
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
For the full recipe, visit
Explore more recipes & tutorials on my site:
Music for this video is given generously for use by award-winning cellist:
Stay connected with me!
Instagram: @nostalgicallymegan
Facebook: @nostalgicallymegan
Music for this video is given generously for use by award-winning cellist, @bensollee.
If you like this video and want to support the efforts in Ukraine by donating with me to World Central Kitchen, you can do so here:
To learn how to make an apple pie, take a few moments to watch my other tutorial here:
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?
This video tutorial and printable recipe are free, but my hope is that you’ll be moved to action to click the button above and donate to World Central Kitchen, a non-profit committed to providing warm meals in 12 Ukrainian cities and across the border into Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
See How Ukrainian Paska Is Made
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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.
Video by Jodie Valade & KJ Edelman/The Charlotte Observer
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