POTICA

Ingredients for dough (picture 1)	Ingredients for filling (picture 4)
- 1/2 kg flour	- remaining whites of the eggs
- cca. 1 l milk	- 2 whole eggs
- 3-4 dkg yeast	- 3 spoons of rum
- 1 tea spoon of salt	- 2 spoons of honey
- lemon or orange peel	- 1-2 dcl. of milk
- 1 spoon rum	- 10-15 dag. margarine
- 6 dkg sugar	- 1 kg. ground walnuts
- 3 yolk of egg	- sugar
- 10 dkg butter, or 7 dkg	- grated lemon peel
- melted butter or 1/2 dl oil	- if the filling is too soft add a few bread crumbs

Instructions for dough:

- put the flour in a warm place
- put yeast into a warm cup and add 2-3 spoons flour, 1 spoon of sugar and some milk until it becomes thick
- put it in a warm place and let it rise
- while the dough is rising, beat ( in a bowl) milk, yolks, sugar, salt, grated lemon or orange peel, that remained in the cup and warm it up
- add melted butter or oil and rum into mixture and pour everything slowly into the flour with the yeast
- knead the dough together until it is smooth (picture 2)
- cover it with a warm piece of cloth and leave it to rise (picture 3)
- after half an hour knead the dough again, cover it and let it rise again
- when the dough has risen sprinkle some flour on the board table, roll out the dough into a square shape until the dough is one cm thick and spread the filling evenly on the dough (picture5)
- begin to roll the dough tightly with fingers
- grease a cake-mould and
- put the "potica" into it (picture 6)
- let it rise for another 20-30 minutes
- warm the oven up to 150 C
- after 20-30 min. put into oven and bake for one hour until golden brown (picture 7/8)

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picture 6

 
picture 7, picture 8