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Kifli Dough
Kifli is a traditional Hungarian cookie. It can be filled with either
a fruit or a nut filling. The recipes provided here are for the Dough,
an Apricot Filling, and a Nut
Filling.
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Time - Bake: |
12 min per cookie sheet |
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Temp - Oven: |
350° F (preheated) |
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| Equipment: |
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| Ingredients: |
| 1 Lb Butter |
1 cup Sour Cream |
| 2 Tbs. Crisco |
3 Tbs. Sugar |
| 5 cups Flour |
2 Tsp. Dried Yeast (1 pkg.) |
| 4 Egg Yolks |
1/2 cup Warm Water |
| 1 Tsp. Salt |
Zest from 2 Lemons |
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| 1 Egg |
1/4 tsp cream |
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| Preparation: |
- Dissolve yeast in water
- Mix butter, Crisco, and flour
- Add remaining ingredients to flour mixture
- Cover dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate 24 hours
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| Baking: |
- Remove dough from refrigerator, divide into quarters, roll into
balls, and let rest at room temperature for a half hour
- Roll dough ball out using floured board and rolling pin to 1/8
in thick
- Cut rolled dough into 2 x 2 inch squares
- Put generous 1/4 tsp. of filling into the center of each square
- Fold one corner over filling (use water to help it stick)
- Roll cookie so opposite corner wraps around cookie and tucks
in underneath
- Using a greased cookie sheet place cookies 1/2 inch apart
- Brush cookies with a glaze made of a beaten egg and a 1/4 tsp
of cream
- Bake for 12 min or until golden brown
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