Ingredients: |
Ingredients: Dough:
3-4 1/2 cups milk, scalded and cooled
5-6 packets of yeast (about 11 1/4 tsp)
3/4 cups butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
3 tsp salt
6 eggs, beaten
13 1/2 cups flour
Filling:
1 1/2 cups honey
2 cups milk
1 stick butter
4 1/2 cups sugar
5 tsp vanilla
7 eggs
2 1/2 pounds of nuts (traditionally walnuts), finely ground
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Directions: |
Directions:1. Dissolve yeast in milk. Add salt and eggs.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add to mixture.
3. Stir in flour. Knead dough until smooth.
4. Place dough into greased bowl. Cover and let rise until doubled in size.
5. While dough is left to rise, thoroughly mix ingredients for filling.
6. Place table cloth on flat surface and tape it down to the underside of the table, so it doesn't move while rolling out the dough. Heavily flour table cloth prior to rolling out dough.
7. Roll out dough very thinly.
8. Spread filling evenly over the dough.
9. Roll dough by holding up one side of the cloth and permitting the dough to fall, so it can be rolled tightly.
10. Place finished roll on greased pan (roaster pan) and join ends to form a ring.
11. Let rise again until puffy.
12. Bake at 325º for 1 hour.
13. Rub butter on bread after it is done.
14. Serve warm and enjoy! |
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Notes: |
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Notes: **In the Muvrin family, this recipe is often made with half pecans and half walnuts. So, when making the filling, evenly split it into 2 separate bowls before adding the nuts. Add 1.25 pounds of walnuts to one bowl and 1.25 pounds of pecans to the other. Before step 7, you will split dough in half, before rolling each one out separately. At step 8, add pecan filling to one and the walnut filling to the other.
**This recipe feeds a large extended family with enough to enjoy and give away. For a small family, cut recipe in half, or a third, and bake on a jelly roll pan.
**Povitica (pronounced poh-vee-TEET-sah), also known as Potica (pronounced poh-TEET-sah), is a Croatian sweet bread that is common in countries throughout Eastern Europe. It is a yeast-raised dough that is rolled around a variety of fillings, the most common being walnut. Traditionally these nut rolls were served at weddings, Easter and Christmas gatherings, as well as other celebrations or holidays.
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