SLOVENIAN POTICA

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Provided by Kaja1955

Categories Breads

Time 3h30m

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 20

500 g white flour
30 g yeast
120 g butter
80 g sugar
3 egg yolks
250 ml milk
1 tablespoon rum
1 lemon peel or 1 orange peel
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
1 pinch salt
500 g ground walnuts or 500 g ground poppy seeds
100 g sugar
100 g honey
100 ml milk
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground cloves
1 lemon peel
2 tablespoons rum

Steps:

Put flour in abowl, sifted if you like, add salt.
In a cup dissolve the yeast in water or milk and in another cup mix the eggs, sugar, rum, vanilla essence, lemon or orange peel.
Healt milk, melt fat.
Add hot milk to the flour, stir and add the mixture of eggs, sugar, rum and aromas.
Stir again, add dissolved yeast and fat and stir into a medium thick dough.
Knead until it is elastic inside and smooth on the outside. Make sure the dough does not stick to the bowl and that it is not too hard.
Cover the dough with a PVC sheet and leave to rise. Dough should always rise at room temperature. With rising the quantity of the dough should double.
Knead it once and roll it out and spread it with the filling.
Filling: Melt honey in tepid milk, and then add one half of walnuts, sugar, eggs, aromas, spices and rum.
Spread the filling on the rolled-out dough and sprinkle with the other half of walnuts. The temperature of the filling should be equal to that of the dough.
Roll tightly, put in a mould, prick and leave to rise.
Before baking, coat with a thin layer of milk and egg mixture - make sure the holes are not stopped.
Bake 50 minutes at 190°C.