Seinfeld shows "babca"?

[usrv...@ibmmail.com]

On the show Seinfeld, they went to a bakery to buy a chocolate "babca". They sold the last
one so they wanted a cinnimon "babca". It looked good. What is it and does anyone have a
recipe for it?

[lori...@delphi.com]

Bubka is a Jewish food. It is an eggtype sweet bread with raisins and
the cinnamon bubka has, you guessed it, cinnamon around the whole
crust. Any good JEWISH bakery or Jewish style bakery will have it. I
live in MA and just bought a cinnamon bubka for 3.98. I thought it
was expensive until I tasted it. It was made with golden raisins and
was excellent. I toasted it and put butter on it..........For anyone
reading this who lives in MA, I got it at Cake Art in Sharon.




Have a jewish
day,

p Lori

[Nancy Dooley]

In article <4f5pkp$5...@news.whirlpool.com> usrv...@ibmmail.com writes:
>From: usrv...@ibmmail.com
>Subject: Seinfeld shows "babca"?
>Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 15:30:36

That's "babka" and I found some babka recipes in the archives.

Nancy Dooley

"Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude.

[Lilasid]

I thought it wa bobka. True, I work in Boro Park, Brooklyn and any Jewish
bakery woth their mandlebread or challah will have a bobka cake.

[Sue M. Ford]

On Feb 07, 1996 00:32:19 in article <Re: Seinfeld shows "babca"?>,

'lil...@aol.com (Lilasid)' wrote:

>I thought it wa bobka. True, I work in Boro Park, Brooklyn and any Jewish

>bakery woth their mandlebread or challah will have a bobka cake.

Where I grew up it was called babka and it was Polish (Ukranians had a
variation). Since the bakeries there are German or Italian, people I knew
usually made it themselves, none of them Jewish.


Sue
Lead me not into temptation.... I can find it myself!

[Vera Petrakos]

Trhis recipe is for Basic Bobke(bobka, bubka) you may embellish as you
see fit. Enjoy!!
Vera

Bobke Recipe:

1 cake compressed yeast
1 cup lukewarm milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs
1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Sift flour, disolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm milk. Add 1 teaspoon sugar,
the salt, 1 cup flour to reamining milk. Beat well. Cover and set aside
to rise in a warm place. When light, cream butter and remaining sugar.
Add eggs and yeast mixture, beat together throughly.Add remaining flour
and raisins. Mix until smooth. cover and set aside to rise until
doubled in bulk(about 1 hour). Turn into 2 well buttered pans (8 in
sq). Fill 1/3 full. brush tops with melted butter(may be sprinkled with
streusel topping) Let rise about 1 hour. Bake in moderate oven
(375 F) 45 minutes.

Streusel topping

1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup dry cake or brad crumbs, ground
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Cream butter add sugar gradually, mix well. Add remaining ingredients
stir until well mixed and crumbly.