Recipe For Cooking Holiday Babka With Rum Glaze

Toaster Oven Yeast Breads :: Sweet Yeast Bread

Holiday Babka with Rum Glaze

1 tea. salt
14 egg yolks
3 yeast cakes
1 C. lukewarm milk
5 1/2 to 6 C. flour, divided
1/4 C. butter, melted
1 C. sugar
1/4 tea. almond extract or flavoring or rum extract or flavoring
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
1/2 C. fine bread crumbs
Citron bits

Rum Glaze
1/2 C. sugar
2 Tbsp. water
2 Tbsp. light rum

Put salt into the egg yolks and beat until lemon colored. Add yeast, milk and half the flour. Mix well and let stand until double in bulk. (Stand in warm room, free of drafts.) Let alone to rise.

Knead thoroughly. Then let it rise; punch down and then let rise again.

Butter a 10-in. tube pan; sprinkle with bread crumbs and fill with dough, 1/3 full. Let rise one hr..

Decorate with citron bits, then bake for 40 min. in a 350 degree F oven.

After removing from oven and while warm, spread with Rum Glaze.

Rum Glaze: Combine sugar with water and rum in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and boil briskly for 1 min.