Polish pastries.

Polish pastries.

We will need these ingredients:
• 225 ml milk
• 475 g flour
• 2 tbsp. l. dry yeast
• 50 ml of lukewarm water
• 150 g of finely crystalline sugar
• 15 egg yolks
• 2 h. L. salt
• 1 hour. L. vanilla extract
• 125 ml of melted butter
• 150 g candied citrus (if desired)
• 75 g almond slices (if desired)
• 75 g raisins (if desired)
For the icing:
• 225 grams of powdered sugar (sifted)
• 2 tbsp. l. orange or lemon juice
• a little boiling water
Utensil:
• Form for baking cakes with a hole in the center with a capacity of 2 liters or form-ring cakes (oiled)
• mixer with attachments-hooks
Cooking method:
1 Heat the milk, bringing it almost to a boil, and pour into a large bowl. Stir 175 g of flour and mix thoroughly. Allow to cool. Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water, add 1 tbsp. l. sugar and leave for 5 minutes. Mixed in milk-flour mixture. Cover and leave to approach the double increase.
2 In a large container, whisk the egg yolks and salt into a thick mass of light. Add the remaining sugar and vanilla extract. Enter the yolk cream coming up the dough, mixing the latter, then - the remaining flour. Electric mixer with the whisk attachments, hooks dough for about 7 minutes. Pour in the melted butter and beat for another 10 minutes and then admixed with candied fruit, almonds and raisins. Cover the bowl with oiled cling film and place the dough in a warm place to approach. When the dough will increase in volume by half, beat out his fist and put back approach to increase by half.
3 Knock the dough. Moisten your hands with water and reload the dough into the mold. Cover and leave to approach the form until the dough fills the form top to bottom. Preheat oven to 180 ° C. Bake for 50 minutes the product. Check availability: after a puncture mid Baba spoke to remain clean. Let cool and turn on the dish.
4 For decoration, beat powdered sugar with citrus juice, add boiling water if necessary to bring the weight up to the consistency of thick but pouring glaze. Pour glaze woman.
About the dish:
For 12 persons:
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Approach time: 3 hours
Preparation time: 50 minutes
The temperature of the oven: 180 ° C
Polish woman - the product of yeast dough with plenty of egg yolks, which are baked by the end of pre-Easter fasting. Baba turns incredibly airy, with a very fine-pored texture. Some housewives are added to the dough candied fruit, raisins or other dried fruit.