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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
It took almost 3 1/2 hours if you include all of the rising periods. That's with the butter already room temp and the raisins soaked in rum. I guess hands on time was around 1 hour. I had to also blanch and skin the whole almonds.
I used to fail at yeast breads all of the time until my husband bought me my KitchenAid mixer. The dough kneading attachment has made a big difference in my success. My yeast-based recipe projects are mostly just homemade pizza dough, the Mazanec, a Czech roll recipe, Czech buchty (sweet filling soft rolls), and Czech kolach, which are basically like buchty, but in Danish shape. I also once made a Christmas coffee cake with nuts and fruit.
The house smells great!
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Ah, yes... My dad has the Kitchen Aid mixer you're talking about with the dough kneading attachment. It's quite an investment, but it's well worth the money if you're constantly baking, cooking, etc..
Sounds like you know a lot of really good Czech recipes.
I could not bake if my life depended on it. The only thing I can cook decently are enchiladas, certain Indian dishes, and mac & cheese (from the box, not from scratch). I follow Indian YouTubers for Indian recipes -- although I do have some Indian spice mix pouches (e.g., kind of like you see those McCormick ones at the grocery store for brown gravy, Santa Fe dry rub, etc.) that I got from the Indian grocery store.