Joyce's mother's wonderful bobka

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2½ cup Flour
3 Eggs; separated
½ pounds Butter or margarine; melted
¼ teaspoon Salt
3 tablespoons Sugar; heaping
¾ cup Milk
1 pack Yeast

Directions

Sift flour, add sugar and salt. Melt butter and heat milk until lukewarm.

Add some milk mixture to yeast to dissolve. Make a well in flour and add yeast and rest of milk mixture. Mix. Add 3 yolks and mix thoroughly.

Place in greased bowl, cover with plate and refrigerate 24 hours.

Refrigerate egg whites.

When ready to bake, beat egg whites stiff with 1 cup sugar. Cut dough in half and knead. Roll out ½ at a time with rolling pin on board. Add beaten egg whites and spread like icing. Top with cinnamon, sugar, raisins, nuts, coconut, etc. Roll like jelly roll cake and place in ½ greased pan (or can use tube pan) Repeat with rest of dough. Let rise in stove 1 hour covered with towel.

Bake 350 for 45 minutes to one hour.

Let me add that Joyce's Mom knew what she was doing! Sam >From: suesam@... (sam hurwitz) From: Bread-Bakers Archives: ftp.best.com/pub/reggie/archives/bread/recipe

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