Placek Swiateczny

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Title: PLACEK SWIATECZNY
Categories: Breads, Polish, Holiday
Yield: 1 loaf

5 Eggs
2 1/2 c Flour, all-purpose
2 c Sugar, icing
2 ts Baking powder
3/4 c Walnuts or pecans,
-chopped fine
2/3 c Raisins
4 oz Orange peel,
-chopped fine
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Butter
1 tb Lemon peel, grated
1 ts Vanilla
3 tb Vodka or brandy

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat eggs with sugar
using an electric mixer for 5 minutes at high speed.

Mix chopped nuts, raisins and orange peel with 2
tablespoons of flour. Mix remaining flour with baking
powder and salt.

Cream together the butter, lemon peel and vanilla
extract until fluffy. Beat in vodka, then add egg
mixture gradually, beating constantly. Add the flour
mixture and beat for 5 minutes. Fold fruit-nut mixture
into the batter. Turn into a greased and floured
9x5x3-inch pan or a 1 1/2 quart ring mold.

Bake at 350 degrees F. for 1 hour. Cool cake in pan
on wire rack for ten minutes, then turn cake out onto
rack and cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap and
set aside to mellow for a couple of days.

NOTES:

* Christmas Bread -- This recipe could be used as
part of a 12-course meal known in Polish as Wigilia,
or on its own. Wigilia is eaten after sundown on
Christmas Eve.

: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 1/2 hour preparation, 1 1/2 hours cooking and
cooling, 2 days aging.
: Precision: Approximate measurement OK.

: Original recipe passed down through the generations
and translated from Polish into English (with a few
mods) by Edward Chrzanowski : MFCF, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada :
echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu or
{ihnp4,allegra,utzoo}!watmath!echrzanowski

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