Celebration cake – a traditional dish, which must be prepared when there is a celebration. Put basil in the middle.
In our region, it is customary that, if the celebration falls on a Wednesday or Friday, the table is also fast.
We celebrate St. Đurđic, we also "get drunk" in the evening (and then the slavonic cake is cut). On both days of the celebration, as well as in the evening, meat cakes are made with which they are "plowed" - the household spins in a circle and breaks them. On the day of the celebration, it is important that it is before noon (before 12 o'clock), the host lights a candle, next to the candle it is obligatory to put grain and a glass of wine, the Our Father is read, the cake is cut (it is poured with wine in 4 places), it is placed on the table baking, cake, cakes, drinks, and this is all done earlier, until the day moves forward, so that the house will progress and for the health of the household.
And in the evening, the cake is cut, and the plowing is done. So, a total of 3 cakes and 3 celebratory cakes are baked, the day before the celebration, nothing is baked on the celebration.
We celebrate St. George's Day for one day, it is a "small" celebration. Then only the celebratory cake is kneaded, no scones are kneaded, and they don't even get drunk in the evenings.
Our customs are beautiful. Let's nurture tradition and keep our customs from being forgotten.
Slavski cake, ingredients:
For the dough:
- 500 ml of lukewarm water,
- 40 g of fresh yeast,
- 2 teaspoons of sugar,
- 2 teaspoons of salt,
- 200 ml of oil,
- 1 kg of flour.
For the decorations:
- 20 g density,
- 100 g of flour,
- 1 teaspoon of salt,
- 70 ml of water.
For gluing the decorations:
- 60 ml of water,
- 25 g of flour.
Celebration cake, preparation:
For the dough:
- Crumble the yeast in a deep bowl, add 100 ml of water, sugar, 1 tablespoon of flour, mix.
- Leave to rise (about 10 minutes).
- Then, add oil, a little flour (about 100 g), add the rest of lukewarm water (400 ml), add salt and gradually add the remaining flour to knead the dough.
- Cover with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest for 30 minutes.
- Coat a deep pan with oil and sprinkle with flour (so that it covers both the bottom and the walls of the pan).
- Put the dough on a floured work surface, knead it.
- Put the dough in a pan. Coat with oil, cover with a clean kitchen towel and leave to stand for 20 minutes (just as long as it takes for the oven to heat up).
- Cover with aluminum foil and put the pan with the dough in a well-heated oven. Bake at 180 degrees for 45 minutes. After that, remove the foil and bake for another 20 minutes.
For the decorations:
- Knead the dough from thickeners, flour, salt and water and let it rest for 30 minutes.
- Use the dough to make decorations of your choice (cross, rose, leaf...)
- Mix the water and flour, and use the mixture to glue the decorations on the celebration cake.
- Put it back in the oven for 10 minutes (but reduce the temperature to 100 degrees).
- Take the finished cake out of the oven, take it out of the pan (so that it doesn't get wet), cover it with a clean kitchen towel and leave it to cool.
Preparation: 150 minutes
Number of servings: 10
Fatty/lean food
Moderately demanding to prepare
Vesna Pavlovic
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