🍯 Pies with poppy seeds and honey We are preparing STRUSNI for Makoviya. Family pastries from the...
On August 1, Ukraine celebrates the Honey Savior - Makovia. This is a holiday with honey, poppy seeds and good prayer. And in our family on this day it always smells of struznye - lush pies with poppy seeds and honey, which we bake according to an old family recipe.
This is not just baking - it is a tradition passed down from generation to generation. That is exactly how we bake them today, in the authentic Ukrainian Food style, with love in the oven, with poppy seeds, apricots, honey - and with great respect for rural labor ♥️
📝 Dough recipe:
✨ 500 ml of water
✨ 2 cups of sugar
✨ 1 cup of oil
➡️ Boil everything, cool.
✨ 1 l of sour milk
✨ 120 g of live yeast "DUKHMYANA KHATA"
✨ 2 tbsp. sugar (for yeast)
✨ 6 eggs
✨ 10 g vanilla sugar (optional)
✨ pinch of salt
✨ 150 g butter
✨ approximately 3 kg of flour (use the consistency)
Knead a soft, loose dough. Let rise once.
🌾 Poppy seed filling:
✨ 500 g poppy seeds
✨ 1 glass of milk
✨ 3 egg whites
✨ 1 tbsp. cornstarch
✨ sugar or ✨ 5 tbsp. honey (I used honey for flavor)
Boil the poppy seeds, evaporate with milk, grind in a blender or through a meat grinder, add other ingredients - and the filling is ready!
🟡 You can also make a filling of apricots or berries - just add a little sugar and starch to
👩🍳 Shaping and baking:
We don't wait for the dough a second time, we shape the pies right away.
Before baking, pierce the pies with a skewer - they don't crack.
Grease ✨ with 3 yolks + 50 ml of milk.
Bake:
• pies - 25 min in the oven
• strudels - 35 min
Grease the hot ones with syrup:
✨ 2 tbsp. honey + 150 ml of water.
✨ Tradition:
This pastry is the soul of the holiday. This is how my mother cooked it, and before her - my grandmother. Now I lovingly pass this tradition on to my children. After all, the village, work, honey, poppy seeds and bread are the foundation that must be preserved.
📩 Write in the comments what your family calls these poppy seed pies. And do you prepare anything special for Makarchuk?
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