For decades, I have had an on-again off-again relationship with bread making and never once ... there were no gluten-free breads in the freezer case at my local grocery store, like there are ...

Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press Half and Half Bread Machine Paska. Add milk, eggs and butter to bread maker, and follow with sugar, lemon rind, salt and flour, ending with yeast on top.

This loaf of paska bread made for Easter dinner was actually my second attempt. The first effort I made Good Friday stuck to the pot and collapsed almost to a pancake on cooling, so I tried again ...

The warmth of the kitchen is comforting and inviting as Oksana Kushnir walks back and forth between a large steel table and the oven while baking paska, which is Ukrainian Easter bread.