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Easter is the brightest spring Christian holiday. Everyone associated the holiday with something of the traditions around it. Most often these are painted eggs and Easter cake. What is it the Easter cake and what does it symbolize? How to cook a delicious Easter cake at home?
The Easter cake and its place in the traditions for the Easter holiday
By its nature the Easter cake is a sweet bread of ritual significance. He is a symbol of the body of the Son of God. It goes along with the red-painted eggs, which are a symbol of Christ's blood shed on the cross.
The Easter eggs appear as part of the Easter rituals in the seventeenth century in France, and then transferred to the rest of Christendom.
They have different names in different countries. In Russia they are known as kulich, and in Italy they bake panettone for Easter. Easter cakes come to Bulgaria at the beginning of the last century, and until then they prepare cookies for the holiday.
The subtleties in the preparation of ritual sweet breads - Easter cakes
The preparation of Easter cake it is not an easy job. It is necessary to comply with a number of requirements, as well as mastery achieved after many years of experience.
The most important thing condition for a nice Easter cake is to be soft, puffy and detachable.
In order to obtain such a mass, it is very important how the ready-made Easter cake will be baked. The mastery of baking will help to avoid a result in which the product is baked only on the outside, and inside the consistency is still like dough, or when it is burnt on the outside and not well baked on the inside and the like.
There are some tips that must be followed to ensure a good result. They are the following:
1. Only fresh yeast should be used. It is known for its light color and pleasant smell.
2. The flour must be dry and must be sifted. It works only with well-known, tried and tested before brand flour.
3. Easter eggs should also be fresh and added one after the other, not together. This way the Easter cake will become threads.
4. The form in which it will be the Easter cake is baked, must be well selected according to the size of the ritual bread. Choose a container that will be filled with dough to 1/4 of its volume. Once poured into the bowl, the Easter cake will rise and then fill most of the form.
5. The Easter cake bake in a preheated oven. First, place in a well-heated oven at about 190 degrees, and after 10 minutes of baking, bake at a moderate temperature.
6. The removal of ready Easter cake of the form is not made immediately, but left to cool slightly.
7. Once removed, the Easter cake wrap in a cotton cloth to keep soft.
8. Easter cake dough can be seasoned with lemon peel, raisins, walnuts, cardamom and other spices if desired.
9. The Easter cake Store in a room at a moderate temperature, do not refrigerate.
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