Method:

Method:

1. Mix milk, eggs, flour, salt, vanilla sugar and make a soft, elastic dough. Cover with a towel and leave it for 15-20 minutes.

2. Divide dough into two unequal parts. Roll out the smaller part of the dough very thinly. Then roll out the other part of the dough the same way—very thinly. Sprinkle the larger dough with vegetable oil and sugar. Cover it with the smaller part of the dough, sprinkle this layer with oil and sugar also. (You may substitute some of the oil with butter).

3. Now you have a double dough circle almost 20” in diameter.

The filling:

1. Mix poppy seeds, walnuts and sugar to make the filling. 

2. Cover half of the circle with the walnut-poppy seed mixture. Make a roll out of dough beginning from the side where the filling is. Then twist the roll lightly. Brush the baking tray with oil and put the roll in a spiral pattern so that the sides do not touch each other. 

3. Then brush the Vertuta with vegetable oil (or with butter) and bake it in the oven at 180°C for about 40 minutes or until it becomes golden and crispy. During the baking use the basting syrup that seeps from the Vertuta to baste it constantly until the end of the baking process.