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Kulich Coffee Can Easter Bread Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Mystic_river1 / All my dishes 2 years, 4 months ago The raisins and currants give this bread a super taste to go with your breakfast or after supper coffee'.To serve cut off the top and place in the center of a plate. Slice cake and place decoratively around the top. Prep:60m Cook:50m Servings:8	Mystic_rive
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Ingredients

2 1/2 C flour

1/4 C sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 T yeast

1/2 C milk

1/4 C butter

1 egg

2 egg yolks

1 tsp. grated lemon zest

1/4 C raisins

1/4 C currants

scant 1/4 C sherry (preferably a sweet or cream sherry)

1/4 C slivered almonds

Glaze

1/2 C confectioner's sugar

1 1/2 tsp. milk

Directions

Butter a 2-lb. Coffee can. Fold a doubled sheet of aluminum foil around the top of the can to extend it about 2 inches.

Soak currants and raisins in sherry for about 1/2 hour before beginning dough.

Combine yeast, 1 cup flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl of an electric mixer. Heat milk and butter until butter is melted and mixture is very warm (about 115° on a candy thermometer). Pour milk mixture into dry ingredients with mixer slowly running, then beat until smooth. Beat in eggs, egg yolks and lemon zest. Gradually add remaining flour, beating well after each addition. Beat in almonds and sherry soaked raisins and currants. Knead until smooth and satiny. Place in a lightly greased bowl, cover with a clean kitchen towel and let rise in a warm, draft free place until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.

Pre-heat oven to 350° F.

Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and knead a few times. Shape dough into a ball and place in greased 2 pound coffee can. Loosely cover top of can with plastic wrap or foil and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, or until dough almost reaches the top of the can .

Bake for about 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean and the loaf sounds hollow when thumped.

Let cool in pan on a wire rack, remove from can after about 10 minutes and let cool completely.

To mix glaze,

blend confectioner's sugar and milk until smooth.

Spread glaze over top, letting it drizzle down the sides.

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Comments

cherihannah 2 years, 4 months ago said:
This I like. Thank you. I also love baking in cans.

mystic_river1 2 years, 4 months ago said:
Thanks cheri!

noir 2 years, 4 months ago said:
This is definately a keeper for moi! :) Excellent!

jo_jo_ba 2 years, 4 months ago said:
This looks great, kind of reminds me of panettone... will have to try this!

annastasia 2 years, 4 months ago said:
If you only knew how many of these I've made at Easter over the years...and many for church bazaars!!! I've never seen a recipe that pre-soaks the dry fruits in sherry (except in fruitcake)...but I'm sure going to try it!
It looks deeeelicious! :o)

skystone 2 years, 3 months ago said:
This looks so much easier than my mother-in-law's recipe that takes 5 lbs of flour, etc. and etc. It takes all day long and makes a cazillion loaves. I will surely be trying this! Thanks so much! Oh...and it's beautiful!

kittyscraps 2 years, 2 months ago said:
OMG, I've been looking for this recipe for years! Just did a google search this morning to try to find it and there it was right there on the first page of results! My Mother made this bread every year for Christmas, she collected cans all year long and gave it out as gifts to everyone, the mailman, the neighbors, teachers at our school, it was a huge hit. She found the recipe on the back of a bag of flour and never could remember how to pronounce or spell the name "Kulich". After our home burned, the recipe was seemed to be lost forever. For years I've asked people if they knew of a raisin bread baked in coffee can and only get looks of disbelief in return. This brings back so many wonderful childhood memories of the holiday season! My Mother is no longer alive for me to share this discovery with but I'm so anxious to make it for my family and friends and revive a tradition that holds a lot of fond happy memories for me. Thank you to the original poster for this recipe!

surfshell37 2 years, 1 month ago said:
I make Kulich Bread for Christmas. But I add Candied fruit, almonds an raisins. My family loves it ! I make the glaze on top with powdered sugar and orange juice. and sprinkle it with red and green sugar. Family tradition
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