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Hungarian Filled Cookies (Kifli) Recipe

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Category:
Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
6 egg yokes (save the white)
1 lb. Butter
½ lb. Crisco
3 tsp. vanilla
5 lb. flour
2 c. sugar
2 tbsp. Salt
2 yeast cakes
1 pt. sour cream
1 c. buttermilk
10x sugar (confection)
fillings - cherry, lekvar (prune), almond, apricot, etc.
Directions:
Directions:
In very large bowl add butter and Crisco, mix. Add in egg yolks, mix.
Add in flour, vanilla, sugar and sour cream, mix well.
Warm milk, yeast, and salt. Need in with dough.
Let the dough rise 1½ hrs.

Roll out dough in sections, about ⅛ in thick, cut into squares about 1½ to 1¾ inch big . Put a small amount of filling in the center of each square, wrap two corner and pinch them together.
When arranged on the cookie sheet, brush with egg white before putting in the oven.


Bake until lightly brown, about 8 minutes at 350º

Sprinkle with 10x sugar when cool

When storing layer with foil or wax paper.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
more than 10 dz
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
several hours
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe has been handed down generation to generation on my mother's side of the family.
I feel my grandmother's(Helen Nemeth-born in Hungary) presence when I make these every year.

 

 

 

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