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Beverage · Belarus Recipe

KARAVAJ

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 10 cupful flour
  • 120 g yeast
  • 1 cupful sour cream
  • 100 g butter
  • 50 g raisins
  • 4 cupful milk
  • 8 eggs
  • fat
  • salt

Directions

  1. Make a leavened dough by dissolving the yeast in lukewarm milk, add the salt, stir in half the flour and mix well until even
  2. Set aside to rise for 2 hours
  3. After the dough has risen, and begins to settle, add to it honey, eggs, raisins, sour cream, butter and knead the dough until it leaves the sides of the bowl clean
  4. Set aside to rise again
  5. After the dough has doubled its original bulk, beat it down and set aside to rise, then knead on the table and place in a greased mould
  6. Decorate the top of the karavaj with dough figures, colour caramel, brush with beaten egging and bake in oven