Eastern Rite Christians will celebrate Easter on April 24. Easter baking is a traditional attribute and symbol of the holiday.. Every housewife has her own recipe for paska, which she follows every year.. There are a great many such recipes and everyone chooses something to their taste..

The simplest pass.

Ingredients.

Flour - 500 gr,.

milk - 250 ml,.

yeast - 35 gr,.

sugar - 1 cup,.

butter - 125 gr,.

eggs - 4 pcs,.

raisins - 30 gr,.

candied fruits - 30 gr,.

vanilla sugar - to taste,.

salt - to taste.

Cooking.

Warm the milk slightly, dissolve the yeast, add sugar and flour, knead everything. Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes.

Melt the butter and wait until it cools. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks, grind the yolks with sugar, and beat the whites into a dense foam.

When the dough doubles, add vanilla sugar, salt, yolks with sugar, flour, proteins. Knead soft elastic dough, add melted butter at the end. Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for an hour. The dough should double in size.

Soak raisins and candied fruits in water for 5 minutes, then pat dry with paper towels.

After an hour, start kneading the dough again. Add raisins, candied fruits to it and mix thoroughly so that they are evenly distributed throughout the dough..

Grease the baking molds with oil, put the dough on 1/3 of the volume of the molds and set aside for half an hour.

When the dough fills almost the entire volume of the form, grease the Easter cakes with whipped yolk and bake for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Remove the finished pasta from the oven, cool and decorate with icing..

Curd paska.

Ingredients.

Fat cottage cheese - 500 gr,.

fat sour cream - 100 gr,.

butter - 100 gr,.

powdered sugar - 100 gr,.

candied fruits - 70 gr,.

almonds - 50 gr,.

vanilla sugar - 10 gr.

Cooking.

Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, so it will become more tender and without lumps.. Add softened butter, sour cream and mix well.

Finely chop large candied fruits, chop the almonds with a blender.

Add candied fruits, nuts, icing sugar, vanilla sugar to the curd mass and mix thoroughly.

Put the curd mass in a mold covered with a napkin or gauze, on top - oppression. In the process of preparing the curd paste, liquid will form, so you need to substitute a plate under the mold so that it has somewhere to drain.

Put cottage cheese pasta in the refrigerator for a day.