Curd Cheese and Jam Parcel/ Túrós és Lekváros Bukta

This is the other delicacy that a typical Hungarian children gets for their breakfast before school. It is filling and because of the curd cheese, we had all the Calcium we needed:) Although that isn't the reason we love this....it is more to do with the delicious texture of the dough and the sweet curd cheese filling with the raisins.

Curd Cheese and Jam Parcel/ Túrós és Lekváros Bukta

For the dough(makes about 15 medium one)

500g plain flour

60g fat - preferably but you can use butter instead

1pinch of salt

50g sugar

2 egg yolks

25g fresh yeast-you can use dried as well

300 ml milk

For the filling 

300g curd cheese *more on this at Tricks and Recommendations

1 egg

100g sugar

3-4 tbsp semolina

zest of 1/2 lemon

raisin to your taste, somebody doesn't like it, I usually add in about 100g

any thick jam that is suitable for baking- I usually use prune if I have a home made one

2 eggs

icing sugar to dust

Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm milk with a pinch of sugar, cover it and leave it to rise. Shift the flour into a bowl and rub in the room temperature fat. Mix in the rest of the ingredients and the yeasty milk. Work it together, kneed for 5-10 minutes and shape a soft dough. Cover with cling film and leave it to rise until it doubles in size(approximately 1-2 hours).

In the meantime you can prepare the filling. Simply mix together the curd cheese, egg, sugar, semolina, lemon zest and raisin.

Preheat the oven to 180C.

When the dough is well risen transfer it to a lightly floured surface and kneed it for a couple of minutes. Divide the dough into two (unless you have a massive work surface) and with a rolling pin roll out until it is 0.5-0.8cm in thickness.

Cut out squares (not like me as I was in a rush) and place about 2 tbsp of filling (curd cheese  in one half and jam to the other half of dough)  in the middle of the parcels. Now you can start folding the corners towards the centre, doing one corner, than the opposite side, and the other two. 

As you fold it it is quite likely you will see the filling in the corners, but it is fine, it supposed to be like that. Brush it with the egg wash and bake it in the oven for 20-30 minutes or until it is golden brown in colour. When ready dust it with icing sugar.