Babka bread
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Tis, if you like bread. Also called Paska depending where in Eastern Europe you are from. Among the great number of ethnic groups making up the local population there are plenty of Poles and Ukrainians. That ethnic mix always made for good eating no matter whose house you were visiting.
Bob
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Having lived in Hungary for a few years I used to enjoy a Christmas/Easter cake called Bejgli (A heavy cake roll filled with either "mákos" poppy seeds or "diós" walnut paste..delicious with good coffee!
Paska sounds delicious too!!
Paska sounds delicious too!!
slapo
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Some like to put in a cocoa filling as well. And if you swap it for grated apples with some raisins and a bit of cinnamon, you get a type of strudel (which are sometimes rolled). Or you could use some cottage cheese, raisins and sugar. :-D
Curiously babka/bábovka, strudel and bejgli/závin is something I used to have with either milk or hot cocoa and just about anyone else I remember having it. Having any of it with butter or tea is... rather British (maybe except babka with butter).
I've no memory of having a paska, though. Maybe it goes under a different name, although photos on Google make me doubt it. Well, at least I haven't had the whole thing.
Stopped eating stuff with sugar added to some six years ago, though. Made an apple roll and a poppy seed rolls without adding sugar (extra raisins, though) and I still quite liked it.