Granny Jeanette's Babka

Ingredients & Directions:

• 3 packets yeast (6 tsp instant or 3 cubes fresh)
  
• 1/2 cup lukewarm water 
• 2 cups flour

Make a well in the flour and let sit for 30 mins.

• 3 yolks
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup yoghurt

Mix with spoon and then knead. Add 3 cups flour (watch closely bc sometimes 3 cups is too much) slowly and leave in the dish for about 4 hours to rise and then knead again.

Roll out and spread butter cinnamon and sugar. Roll it up and slice into 6 pieces and place in a greased break away round tin and allow to rise for 1 hour.

Boil 3 Tablespoons milk and 3 Tablespoons sugar and pour into the holes.

Bake in 300 degree oven for 1 hour.

 

Notes: This is not the sweetest babka. You can really taste the sour notes from the yogurt. Personally I like it sweeter and want to try it with double the filling and do spiral rolls instead of cinnamon roll styled in a round breakaway pan. One day.......

When my mom used to bake this when I was little I remember her piling pillows all around it as it would rise. She said it kept the dough warm to rise. I can clearly see the the floral patterned pillows in a pile around the bowl.