Easter Cake with Rice

Description

In Romanian: Pasca cu orez

Ingredients

Sweet bread dough

• 2 lbs / 1 kg flour
• 10 oz / 300 g sugar
• 1½ cups milk
• 6 eggs
• 2 oz / 50 g yeast
• 7 oz / 200 g butter
• 2 tablespoons oil
• vanilla stick
• salt

Filling

• 1 cup rice
• 4 cups milk
• sugar to taste
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• 6 oz / 150 g raisins
• a little vanilla
• salt

Directions

1. Boil the rice with the milk and vanilla (as for rice with milk). Add salt.
2. When done, let cool, then add sugar, yolks, butter, raisins and mix well.
3. Add the whipped egg whites at the end.
4. Roll a pencil thick sheet out of the sweet bread dough. Place in a baking pan.
5. From another piece of dough form a long, finger thick roll and arrange it around the sheet, sticking to the walls of the pan.
6. Place the filling within, without covering the roll on the edges.
7. Make two more such dough rolls and place them over the filling in an X shape.
8. After the cake has risen a bit in a warm place, use a little egg wash over the dough rolls.
9. Set in the oven to bake. Remove from the pan when it is cold.