Basic Sweet Dough Recipe
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Basic Sweet Dough

By: Carol  
"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. For Whole Wheat Rolls use 4 cups sifted flour and 4 cups fine whole wheat flour."

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Prep Time:
25 Min
Cook Time:
25 Min
Ready In:
2 Hrs 50 Min

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Original Recipe Yield 4 dozen rolls or 4 fancy breads
 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup milk
  • 8 cups sifted all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 cups cold water
  • 2 (0.6 ounce) cakes compressed fresh yeast
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 4 tablespoons shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons melted shortening

Directions

  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 for 2 hours. Do not set bowl on radiator or in hot place. Keep away from draughts. Allow dough to rise until doubled in bulk.
  4. Punch down dough. Use dough for any sweet bread recipe.

Nutritional Information open nutritional information

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 104 | Total Fat: 2.1g | Cholesterol: 9mg

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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Dec. 31, 2003 by ALYCE 
I baked bread at 350 and this was a good temperature for the mix since so temperature was... MORE
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Reviewed on Oct. 15, 2003 by BILL AXTELL 
After making a double batch of Carol's recipe I found that the ingredients and qtys worked... MORE
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Reviewed on Aug. 16, 2003 by KARLA B. 
Very light and sweet; delicious! MORE
The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Aug. 16, 2003 by WHITMUR 
wow! I like it MORE
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Dec. 24, 2006 by AMBLING 
Had this in my Fleischman's Recipe book from years ago. When I went to bake this year . .... MORE
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Jan. 24, 2008 by miki 
This is one of the best sweet doughs I've ever used. I have been looking for a really good... MORE
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Nov. 26, 2003 by AMANDAWARD 
I made several things out of this dough I must say this is a very good cinnamon roll dough I... MORE
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Reviewed on Feb. 28, 2006 by Lenora.C. 
Easy recipe to make. Taste was pretty good too! MORE
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Reviewed on Sep. 11, 2005 by Emily E 
This was so easy! after i punched it down i used it for apple dumplings and the were so yummy!... MORE
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Reviewed on Oct. 26, 2009 by apurpleocean Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
very good. i halved this recipe. used butter instead of the shortening and used one packet of... MORE

 
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