Potica (traditional slovenian holiday cake) pt 2

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
See part 1

Directions

tremendous potica! Well, my grandmother has been gone for twenty years, but when I ran across a recipe for potica on the Slovenia home page, I had to try it. And I was disappointed. It just wasn't the same as my grandmother's. So I challenged my mother to remember how her mother had made it. And we looked up a dozen or more recipes in cookbooks and from other family members and friends. And we made several poticas, refining the recipe until we had it right. And now I can make potica as good as grandma's. The smell takes me back to my childhood and her kitchen, and so she is with me still. And my child will take the smell with him, too, but this time he will have the recipe! One thing to note. Potica is supposed to rise very high, topping out an angel food cake pan. In Slovenia they use special ceramic pans which are higher still. To get the rise you should have, the ingredients, the bowls, and the pans should all be warm, at least room temperature, and the kitchen should best be very warm as well. This way your potica won't catch a chill and fail to rise to expectations.

Measurements are all in English units, but the Slovenia home page has conversions to metric and traditional Slovenian units.

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Posted to Digest bread-bakers.v097.n075 by snardo@... on Nov 23, 1997

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