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Kuchen Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 packages dry yeast
1/2 cup + sugar
1/2 cup + milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs or 3 yolks (Nana T used only egg yolks, Dolly used whole eggs)
1/2 cup softened butter
2 1/2 to 3 cups flour
Filling: poppyseed, almond or prune

Icing-optional
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
water
Directions:
Directions:
Dissolve 2 packages dry yeast in ½ cup warm water, feed it with a pinch of sugar
Scald ½ cup of milk and let cool
In a glass bowl, mix ½ cup sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs (or 3 egg yolks), ½ cup softened butter, and milk.
Add yeast.
Stir in 2 ½ cups flour until smooth, then add 2 ½ to 3 cups flour until the right elastic texture is achieved.
Knead for a full 5 minutes.
Set in a greased bowl, turn over, cover, and let rise for at least 1 ½ hours.
The recipe makes two loaves. So, the dough should be divided in two after the first rising.
Punch down, roll into rectangle and spread with filling- poppyseed, almond, or prune
Roll up, make sure ends are secure
Cover, let rise until double- about 30 minutes.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes, test with toothpick.

Icing:
Nana T. and Dolly did not use icing. The Tschida Bakery on Rice Street and the Grundtner's iced theirs.

Mix vanilla, powdered sugar in bowl.
Add cold water, by the teaspoonful until a slightly runny paste is created.
Ice the loaves immediately before they come out of the oven.

 

 

 

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