Comments on: Nadia’s Kulich ~ Russian Easter Bread

By: Helen Volhontseff

Helen Volhontseff — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:57:43 +0000

Hey, MY mom’s Kulich is the best! Here in the San Francisco Bay area she gets the most compliments from all the relatives and church ladies and extended family!

And her Paskha is to die for. It’s Russian Easter morning and I am trying (like a fool) to figure out the points for Kulich and Paskha based onthe Weighwatchers guides. She just told me she uses

4 quarts of 1/2 and 1/2, buttermilk
5 egg yolks
1 pound of sugar and
3/4 of a pound of butter.

Then some magic happens, its turns into a cheesy conconction and voila, we have this yummy spreadable goo that wouldn’t stand up in a mold if we tried since it is too rich!

It’s time to go visiting and try everybody’s Easter food!

Tell me who you are….

“Hristos Voskrese” (Christ is Risen)

Helen (Lena) Volhontseff

By: jeanne

jeanne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:56:14 +0000

Thank you for the recipe! I made the bread this weekend. I couldn’t find the vanilla powder and made that myself with powdered sugar and a vanilla bean. I must have looked like an “I love Lucy” eposide. The yeast started to raise, and raise, and raise, yup right over the pitcher I had it in. Then my “borsch” pot wasn’t big enough to have the bread raise, therefore, I used a very clean new plastic trash bucket! And my 5 large coffee cans wasn’t enough for baking. I also made two regular loaves and some muffins from the same batch. But, it was fun and worth every penny and minute! Everyone loved it, and it brought back so many found memories. Best toasted very lightly with a cup of tea.

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By: serduchkafan

serduchkafan — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:32:33 +0000

So cool! I’m gonna have to try to make this.

By: willow

willow — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:08:38 +0000

Cubes of butter. Cups of cream. Dozens of eggs.

My cholesterol meter just malfunctioned~

But it sounds wonderful.

By: bridget

bridget — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:54:50 +0000

that looks like art!

By: Lovella

Lovella — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:39:44 +0000

I always love seeing different recipes for Paska/Easter Bread /Kulich. Your mom’s recipe is very similar to my mom’s with lots of eggs. I adopted my husbands grandma’s recipe as my own and then changed it up a bit more. I love how that works. Oh and the cheese spread is also very similar.

My paska is in pans as I write this. . .

By: Lana G!

Lana G! — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:26:26 +0000

Yummy! Can’t wait!

By: Islandsparrow

Islandsparrow — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:16:12 +0000

Wow! I bet it’s delicious.

I tried a Mennonite paska bread once when I lived out in Manitoba - it took 12 eggs - and it was delicious too.

But I wouldn’t want to figure out how many steps I would have to take to work that off . . .

By: kim from hiraeth

kim from hiraeth — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:24:34 +0000

Looks like a lot of work!

But worth it!

You said: “To go with this bread my mom always makes a wonderful sweet cheese topping that is molded.”

What does it mean, “that is molded?”

I guess I’m dense this morning because I can’t figure that part out.

: D