5 eggs
2 1/2 cup flour, all-purpose
2 cup sugar, icing
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped fine
2/3 cup raisins
4 oz orange peel, chopped fine
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter
1 tbsp lemon peel, grated
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp vodka or brandy
A Recipe for
Placek Swiateczny
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat eggs with sugar using an electric
mixer for 5 minutes at high speed.
Mix chopped nuts, raisins and orange peel with 2 tablespoons of
flour. Mix remaining flour with baking powder and salt.
Cream together the butter, lemon peel and vanilla extract until
fluffy. Beat in vodka, then add egg mixture gradually, beating
constantly. Add the flour mixture and beat for 5 minutes. Fold
fruit-nut mixture into the batter. Turn into a greased and floured
9x5x3-inch pan or a 1 1/2 quart ring mold.
Bake at 350 degrees F. for 1 hour. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for
ten minutes, then turn cake out onto rack and cool completely. Wrap
in plastic wrap and set aside to mellow for a couple of days.
NOTES:
* Christmas Bread -- This recipe could be used as part of a
12-course meal known in Polish as Wigilia, or on its own. Wigilia is
eaten after sundown on Christmas Eve.
: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 1/2 hour preparation, 1 1/2 hours cooking and cooling, 2 days
aging.
: Precision: Approximate measurement OK.
: Original recipe passed down through the generations and translated
from Polish into English (with a few mods) by Edward Chrzanowski
: MFCF, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
: echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu or
{ihnp4,allegra,utzoo}!watmath!echrzanowski
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Serves: 1
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