Poviticia?

I was reminded of an ad I saw last year for poviticia, a European (Croatian?) coffee cake. I was intrigued by the design and was wondering if anybody's tried to make this at home.

This is the website:
http://www.povitica.com/

Hi,

I know of one poster of Croatian descent whose Mother makes these. I'm hoping to learn from her elbow sometime. There might be an instructional video out there somewhere, which would be wonderful.

Regards,

Hi,

Costco was demoing Strawberry Hill Povitica Co's English Walnut and Apple Cinnamon variations of povitica. I found them lighter than those made by friends.

This company has other fillings: poppy seed, raisin walnut, cream cheese, strawberry cream cheese, reduced sugar walnut, cranberry walnut, plus three seasonal offerings of blueberry cream cheese, cokolada (chocolate) and pumpkin spice.

This company has been in business since 1984 making povitica to Grandma's recipe. I will presume Grandma might not recognize some of the variations now offered.

Regards,

Some additional discussion is in this Northern Minnesota thread under potica, and the Wikipedia article for that rendering and version has some other great links. My mom makes a brown sugar and poppy seed version learned from a Ukrainian neighbor in Melrose Park.

OMG! I just got done eating a slice of Strawberry Hill's English Walnut Poviticia when I happened upon this thread!

We picked up four of them at a Costco in Kansas City, hometown of Strawberry Hill. The price was unbelievable, too. $14.99 each versus $18.99 when you buy direct from the bakery's outlet store. We picked up two English Walnut, one Apple Cinnamon, and a Pumpkin Spice, and saved a trip to the bakery.

Buddy

i'm croatian, my mom LOVES to bake, and she has never tried making it herself since it's so labor intensive. the "traditional" flavors are poppy seed and walnut, and strawberry hill's walnut is awesome. love it. i was excited when i saw that they have cokolade version, but disappointed in the lack of chocolate flavor (tried at costco).

I finally made this today.

Those look GORGEOUS! Congratulations on a poviticia well done. How about a cross section view?

Buddy

Yum. Those look so good. Would love to try making.

Here's the inside view of the loaf I brought to work this morning.

Dat's what I'm talkin' about!

Nice job. Since I am not quite the industrious baker you are, I'm hoping Strawberry Hill will have their Poviticias on sale again at the local Costco when we visit Kansas City this Christmas.

Buddy

Buddy,

Be sure you try the Costco in midtown KC, they're likely to have it. But I also remember that you could get this bread at various meat markets in KCK during the holiday season, so it might pay to look around if it's not at Costco. Oh, and McGonigle's might work, too.

Geo

I can get a Poviticia right from Strawberry Hill's factory out on I-35. But, as I found out last Christmas, I can get 'em cheaper at Costco on the right day.

Buddy

I finally remembered to ask my mom for her potica recipe when we went home for Christmas. Since my nephew and my sister are allergic to nuts, she no longer makes the walnut version, only the poppyseed, which I do not prefer. Now I can make my own I didn't find it difficult or time consuming to make at all. There is no attribution on the typed, schmeared card she scanned for me. I made a half recipe, which made two large loaves. A full recipe makes 3 very large (long and skinny-ish) loaves. I think she bakes them in long skinny pans, but I just set them side by side on parchment on a baking sheet and they were fine.

Linda's Potica
Dough
3 T sugar
1 1/2 t salt
4 c flour
1 stick butter
3 egg yolks
1 c sour cream
1 cake yeast ( I used 2 1/4 t instant)
1/4 c warm water
1 t sugar

Sift or whisk the sugar, salt and flour. Cut in butter as for pie crust. Dissolve yeast in water, add sugar. Let stand until it foams. Mix egg yolks and sour cream, add foaming yeast. Make a dent in flour and add liquids. Mix well and knead gently. Place in a bowl and refrigerate overnight.

Filling
1 1/4 lb nuts (usually walnuts)
4 egg whites
1/4 lb butter
1 c boiled milk
1 egg yolk
1 c sugar

Grind nuts finely. Add butter and sugar to boiled milk. Pour over nuts and let set till egg whites beat stiff. Fold egg whites into nut mixture.

Finishing
Divide dough into 3. Roll out each piece and spread with 1/3 filling. Roll up and place in pans seam side down. Slightly beat egg yolk and brush on top of dough. Let rise in warm place 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Bake at 325 for 45-60 minutes.

I'm late to the game here, but for Buddy and Geo, some of the Bichelmeyer ladies(of the meat market)
used to make them at Christmastime and would sell them through St. Joes Catholic Church (at least that's where my sister got them)
and I think at the Market on 7th St. Might be too late for this year.
I've got the recipe sitting around somewhere from Marianne that used to run Jenny's(RIP) the Croatian place
on 6th in KCK, and predecessor to the Strawberry Hill Company.

BTW, Toria/Cathy2...if you're ever interested in making it, feel free to PM me. I'm always happy to have folks over to bake with me. I made about a dozen loves of this over the holidays this year, so I pretty much have it "down" now.

Great idea. I just might take you up on this sometime. This looks perfectly good not too sweet but really good. I made Hungarian walnut horns at Christmas and they had a similar walnut filling but were like small pastries rather than a roll.