A classic from my Mum. I’ve never made them before, but I’ve been looking at some ways of getting Izzie to like apples. So I asked Mum for a recipe, made the racuchy and served to Izzie for supper. She liked the soft, yeasty dough sprinkled with icing sugar, but spat out the apples.  Back to the drawing board. 🙂

Mum only uses fresh yeast in her cooking and baking, so I called in the bakery this morning. I used about 30 g of yeast, some sugar and less than a mug of warm milk, a couple of spoons of flour  and made “zaczyn”. Allowed it to rise a few minutes and froth gloriously, then added more milk, more flour, an egg yolk, a bit of melted butter. The texture was to be like very thick cream. Then another 15 minutes of resting. Thinly sliced apple pieces went in and I pan fried them in batches, using the lid and finishing in the oven, as they needed to be cooked inside all the way.

Sweet, filling, satisfying. 3 hours later craving a sausage, therefore chipolatas in the oven. 🙂