Recipe Category: Miscellaneous/Unclassified
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Recipe Ingredients:
2 Package Active dry yeast
1/2 Cup Warm water
3/4 Cup Milk
1/4 Cup Butter
1/2 Cup Sugar
2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Grated lemon rind
2 Cup Sifted all purpose flour
2 Eggs, beaten
2 3/4 Cup Sifted all purpose flour
(about - may need more/less)
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1/2 Cup Soft Butter (or more)
1 1/3 Cup Sugar
Cooking Directions:
Soften active dry yeast in warm water.
Scald milk; add butter, sugar, salt and lemon rind; cool.
Stir in two cups flour; eggs and yeast mixture; beat well. Add additional flour to make a stiff dough. Knead on floured canvas.
Place in greased bowl; cover let rise until doubled. Divide into four equal pieces.
For One Tree
Roll one piece of the dough into a 5 x 13 inch rectangle; brush with one fourth of the softened butter. Mix the cinnamon and sugar together. Sprinkle the dough with 1/3 of the sugar/cinnamon mixture. Start at wide edge; roll as for jelly roll; pinch edge to seal. Cut into 17 slices.
Arrange slices, cut side down, lengthwise on greased cookie sheet to form a tree: Start with one slice at the top; just below this, place two slices overlapping slightly; then a row of three slices; four slices and finally five slices, use the two end slices for the trunk.
Repeat for making the other three trees.
Cover; let rise until doubled.
Bake in preheated 350 degree oven about 20 minutes.
Cool, frost and decorate as desired.
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