Special food for today's holiday

[Tri2Cook]

Not exactly. See Norm's picture in post #4 of this thread. I know what he means by the "paperclip". A similar folding technique after the rolling is described in the Babka recipes I have. I'm guessing, based strictly on the descriptions and pictures here, that the difference between your Potica and Norm's Povitica is probably just the folding but a little more digging may be in order now that you've aroused my curiosity.

[Norm Matthews]

I will attempt to show how I was taught to fold it by using two napkins with the bottom one representing the dough and the top one the nut paste layer.  The paper clip comparison may not have been an ideal example.  

 

Edited April 10, 2015 by Norm Matthews (log)

[Smithy]

Norm Mathews, that's an excellent illustration!  Thank you!

[racheld]

The most different Easter tradition for us is Povitica bread. It is a Croatian holiday sweet yeast bread with a walnut paste filling.  Someone in our neighborhood would give us a loaf every Easter.  I believe we were the only Irish protestants in the neighborhood.  I don't think I realized that other non-Catholics came out on week-days until I was in my teens.  Many years ago I made this a couple times with pecans when my uncle from Arkansas gave me a bag of them each Christmas, but now it is easier to just get a loaf at the Strawberry Hill bakery. 

 

This picture was last year's Povitica.

 

 

Here it is on the table this year.  This year I went for a newer variety: the filling was apple cinnamon

 

Oh, MY STARS!

 

We haven't met, and I seldom check in to comment, but this is simply marvelous!   I'm not familiar with the lovely, intricate  bread, but the entire table is absolutely perfect, down to my MOTHER'S china!    The devilled eggs, the three-bean salad, the pineapple-upside-down-cake, the sweet potatoes and the GREEN "Pink Salad" lend an air of The Perfect Southern Easter Dinner, almost all of which appeared on our own table this year.     The photo is simply so nostalgia-perfect of all my years in the South, and I thank you for these lovely memories, all captured in one welcoming, beautiful table. 

 

rachel