Print: Basic Sweet Dough

I have made plenty of sweet breads, and I always favored the Hungarian Coffee Cake and Swedish Tea Ring. This sweet dough recipe is my mother's, and this works out really well because it is an old recipe. I have also used others which were more recent and still turned out well, but this one is the best I have found. Use this recipe for the basis of your sweet breads.

Prep

16 min

Cook

48 min

Servings

Difficulty

Hard

Ingredients

1 cup milk
8 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1.25 cups cold water
2 , 0.6 ounce
2 teaspoons salt
0.5 cups white sugar
4 tablespoons shortening
2 eggs
2 tablespoons melted shortening

Instructions

1 Scald milk in a medium saucepan. Add cold water to scalded milk. Remove 1/4 cup liquid; mix yeast into liquid when cooled to lukewarm. To liquid in saucepan, add salt, sugar, shortening, and eggs. Add dissolved yeast to saucepan. Mix well.
2 Sift and measure the flour into a large bowl. Make a well in the flour, and pour the liquids into the well. Stir with a large wooden spoon until liquid disappears.
3 With one hand, mix dough in bowl using swinging rotary motion. Gradually form dough into smooth ball, then knead in bowl for 2 minutes. Brush top with melted shortening. Cover, and allow dough to rise at room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 2 hours.
4 Punch down dough. Use dough for any sweet bread recipe.

Nutrition per serving

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