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Plum Cake

Plum Cake

Recipe from the book "The First Ukrainian Everyday Cookbook" (1-ша українська загально-практична кухня), 1929, by Olha Franko.

Ingredients

  • 600g flour
  • 200ml milk
  • 11g dry yeast
  • 100g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 90g melted butter
  • 400g plums

Preparation

  1. Place the flour, warm milk, yeast, eggs and sugar into a bowl.
  2. Knead for 10 minutes in a stand mixer.
  3. Add the butter and knead for a further 5 minutes.
  4. Cover and leave to rise for 1.5 hours.
  5. Transfer the dough into a brytvanка (a shallow rectangular baking pan), arrange the plum halves on top, and sprinkle the cake with sugar.
  6. Cover and leave to rise for another half an hour.
  7. Bake in a rura (oven) preheated to 180° for 35 minutes.
  8. Dust the cooled cake with powdered sugar.