The cake is the sweet part of the Easter table

On Easter, probably every child most looking forward to appearing on the table of the cake. But not in vain! This is the most delicious treat in the holiday. But few know that it has its history Dating back to the past. Before the cakes were baked only a few times a year, on major holidays, which were associated with the change of the seasons: in the New year, early spring and autumn, when to sow and harvest. Due to this historical fact is easy: the cakes were very expensive, because for their preparation required a lot of valuable products

In addition, to prepare them for long time, only to make the dough takes more than six hours. By the way, the cake is the "predecessor" - artos, which has a liturgical meaning. And lighting it is a purely religious rite.

Easter cakes prepared two days before Easter, on Thursday or Friday. How to distinguish a quality product from the poor? The fact that a well-baked cake is stored and not stale for a week or more. Today it is an obligatory dish for Easter, without which you cannot start any feast. Usually the dough to make it on the night of Thursday, and light in the night of Holy Saturday. The size of the cake does not matter, the main thing is that he was tall. As for recipes, many of them! The basis, I think, are the secrets of the Housewives, because, honestly, baking a cake is not easy, and it requires not only talent, but also the experience!

Cake recipe

Method of preparation and time it is not difficult to prepare, for example, cake and cream. For this we need 3-4 cups of cream to warm, add the yeast, mix with 2 cups of flour and one teaspoon of sugar. Then put the mixture into a warm place and wait for the foam. Take 2 eggs and separate whites from yolks. The yolks should be mix with sugar, butter previously softened, salt and vanilla until white. Protein to mix with the sugar and beat until foaming.

Once the dough is ready, it is necessary to add yolk-oil mass and stir well, then add whipped cream and again stir. After taking the dough and knead it, if necessary, pouring flour so that the dough is not stuck to the hands. Then cover it with foil and put in a warm place until increased in volume by a factor of two.

After that, the dough stir again, adding raisins, nuts and candied fruit. Then the mass is decomposed according to the forms, but you should pay attention to the fact that it took 1/3 of the height. To put all this in a warm place, and when the dough will occupy the entire form, put in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake until tender, but the temperature during cooking turn down to 160 degrees. Finished baking, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and the cake is ready! The most important thing in this recipe is to let the dough to rise strongly, because it depends on the fluffiness of the cake!

There is a superstition that if the cake is not cracked, not dropped, the family is all well and good until next Easter, if something happened to him is a bad sign. So the main condition in the production of this delicacy is in a good mood while cooking! And then the cake will truly light as a holiday, and delicious!

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Author: Lily