1 / 3Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili / "Antenna" Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili / “Antenna” Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili / “Antenna” Daria Dontsova, writer: - I have a believer husband, I - no. But if you do not believe, it does not mean that God will not help you. On Easter, I always bake kulich, make Easter. With granddaughters we paint eggs with onion peel. When there are a lot of eggs, I, even if they are not hallowed in the church, do not throw them away, but give them to the birds. This is such a Christian tradition. I learned cakes from my grandmother. We then lived in a communal apartment. At 12 o'clock in the morning on Pure Thursday, the grandmother would go to the stove (she was a believer and could not bake on the Great Wednesday with the Passion of Christ). My grandmother had four vintage long forms with clasps on her side. The dough was made in buckets. Then the grandmother and the neighbors went to the bakery on Myasnitskaya (in my childhood Kirov street). They negotiated with female workers to bake cakes in huge ovens at night, as the forms did not fit into the gas stove. Kulichs were preparing more than 30. Then down pillows were taken, forms were put on them, latches were opened, kulichs were rolled into these pillows and “rested” there until they were cold. we started baking cakes in cans of instant coffee, canned food. Then, abundance of trade poured into the country, and disposable paper cups appeared. But they never make such tasty kulichi as grandmothers had. Recipe from Darya Dontsova Rough 250 g of butter over low heat. 5 eggs stir with 10 tsp. sugar, add 2 cups flour, mix. Heat 0.5 liters of milk to make it a little warm, and mix the dough with it. Mix 0.5 sticks of pressed (not dry!) Yeast, a little bit of sugar in 2–3 tbsp. l warm milk. When foam comes out of the yeast, pour them into the dough. Stir and add flour to make a not very cool dough, the consistency is the same as on eclairs. Add a little raisins, candied fruits and, if you want, dried fruits. But keep in mind: the more you put dried fruit, the less dough will rise. Next, let the dough come and crush it, then again: let it go and knead it. Grease the form with butter and 2/3 fill the dough. Grease the top of the dough with yolk. Put in the oven, heated strictly to 180 0 C, and bake until the dough rises. Dampen a towel in ice water, squeeze, spread. Put a cake on a towel and quickly close the cake with the edges of the towel. Count to 20 and clean the towel. So the cake will not have a hard crust. Secret tasty cake from Darya Dontsova1. Buy good products, for example, real butter, not substitutes. Cook in a good mood! If you curse with someone, you have a TV or radio in your kitchen, the cake will not work.3. Stir the dough and other ingredients in one direction only clockwise. So the dough enters oxygen. Stir it all yourself, not a mixer .... Read More