Video: The blessings of baking babka
October 23, 2015 12:00 am
• Last Updated: October 23, 2015 10:40 pm
Volunteers at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Quaker Hill gather in the kitchen to braid loaves of cinnamon sweet bread during an all-day baking marathon Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Waterford —Gary Henriksen and Thecla Abbiati turned over the bowl of dough as Judy Strutt helped ease it out of the bowl as volunteers at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Quaker Hill baked hundreds of loaves of babka, Polish sweet bread, during an all-day baking marathon Friday. Five hundred loaves of both the traditional raisin babka and a braided cinnamon sugar bread will be sold at the church's annual Christmas fair and bake sale Saturday.
Gary Henriksen, back right, and Thecla Abbiati, right, turn over the bowl of dough as Judy Strutt helps ease it out of the bowl and Sherry Morris, left, waits to get to work as volunteers at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Quaker Hill bake hundreds of loaves of babka, Polish sweet bread, during an all-day baking marathon Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Sister Mary Michelle Sokol watches the mixer of dough as volunteers at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Quaker Hill bake hundreds of loaves of babka, Polish sweet bread, during an all-day baking marathon Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.(Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
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