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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Eastern European >> Russian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. cream sugar, shortening, salt, and eggs. | 2. Dissolve yeast in water and add to creamed mixture. | 3. Add 1 1/2 cups of flour to yeast mixture. | 4. Beat on low speed with electric mixer. | 5. Stir in remaining flour completely until smooth and a ball is formed. Dough will be yellow because of the eggs. | 6. Let rise in warm place for 1 -2 hours until double. | 7. Make filling: | 8. For raisin nut filling | 9. Use a large bowl and mix nuts and raisins with your hands: | 10. Add 16oz jar of honey and 2 cups sugar and mix with a mixing spoon. | 11. For prune/apricot filling: | 12. add water to cover and simmer for 30 minutes til tender. | 13. Drain water; chop fruit, add 1/4 teaspoons allspice; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 tablespoons lemon juice; 1 tablespoons lemon zest. | 14. Mix well. | 15. Stir dough well and turn out onto floured board and roll into a rectangle. | 16. Place filling at one and roll to other end, not too tight. Place on greased baking sheet and let rise 30 minutes, then brush top with sugar water solution. | 17. Bake at 375 degrees (350 if using a glass baking dish) for 30 minutes or until brown . | 18. Brush with melted butter and dust lightly with confectioners' sugar. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	4	cups		2313.12	506.4216	37.604	8.9744
sugar	1	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
water	3/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
yeast	2	packages		-	-	-	-
walnut	2 1/2		shelled chopped	4817.8	0.0	0.0	545.0
raisin	1			498.3	131.208	5.5935	0.759
prune	1	cup		245.7	65.05199999999999	2.0358	0.46799999999999997
apricot	3/4	cup		55.8	12.927	1.6275	0.4534

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.