Paska Bread #SundaySupper

Name: Paska Bread #SundaySupper
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 4 1/2 teaspoons yeast; 1 tablespoon white sugar; 1 cup milk (scalded and cooled to warm); 1 cup water (lukewarm); 6 tablespoons Crisco shortening; 1/2 cup white sugar; 3 eggs; 1 1/2 cups raisins; 1 tablespoon cinnamon; 1 1/2 teaspoons salt; 6 cups white flour (Maybe a bit more if needed); 1 egg yolk; 2 tablespoons water; white icing of your choice

By Deanna Samaan April 20, 2014December 1, 2019

This post was most recently updated December 1, 2019

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Happy Easter! You go into a store, smell the aroma of the flowers like the lilies in bloom, waiting to go home with someone for the holiday. Bags of candies like jelly beans, those peanut butter eggs, and of course chocolate bunnies waiting to be bought to fill up Easter baskets. Yep, it is all signs of Easter and that Spring is here.

I admit I do love that smell of the flowers when I walk into a store like Target or Walmart. It such a welcoming smell to me personally. This year I am making the drive to see my parents in Pittsburgh, so I can spend a little time with them. Usually, for Easter, I don’t be honest because of the holiday on a Sunday, and I have to work the next day, so sometimes the 2 1/2 hour drive isn’t worth it. I got more time this weekend to see them so, this year it works out that I can make the drive.

I have been talking so much about change, and Spring and Easter really are about change. They are good examples of why it is good to accept change. In religious terms, Easter is about Christ dying for our sins and being resurrected. That was need so that we can change. Spring is the trees and flowers blooming, birds coming back. Again, change, it is the changing of the seasons.

So why am I mentioning all this? Well, it to show how we do need change. Easter is a great reminder of that. I have been making changes in my life and here on my blog, one the changes I made recently for Seduction was joining:

Last week I did my first post with them, so, of course, I wanted to do another post. The theme is Easter/Passover Feast. There is such a feeling when you are with family to share a special meal, like that of Easter/Passover. I decided I wanted to do Paska bread. The reason I choose this bread was because I have great memories of it, well I should say, Pittsburgh memories. My mom would buy Paska bread from Manzini’s Bread company. The taste of this raisin bread was so good. You knew it was Easter time when my mom brought this bread home.Years later, I found out more about making my own. It is an Eastern European bread. It is a dense bread that uses more dairy in it than a traditional bread. The interesting thing about Paska bread is the meaning. The swirls of spices in it the inside of Paska is said to represent the risen Christ, while the white icing represents the Holy Spirit. The raisins represent all of us, kinda interesting, or least I think so. Some do make it with bread decorations, like that of a cross. So, knowing all this I felt this would be a great recipe to do for Sunday Supper Easter/Passover Feast.

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6 servings