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This recipe came from my grandmother cousin Armella. I did leave out Armella’s secret ingredient- which would be tobacco smoke. Both Armella and her husband were chain smokers and I still remember the cloud of smoke that hung in the air. Ahh the 70s when a little second hand smoke was OK.
Armella's Kuchen recipe
Ingredients
Main Kuchen dough
- 1 cup milk scaled
- 1/4 cup shortening (half crisco, half butter)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 yeast cake
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup warm water
Topping
- 1/2 Cup butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup flour
Instructions
- scald milk, add shortening, sugar and salt, when cooled add eggs
- Dissolve yeast in warm water, add 2 tablespoon sugar
- Let rise a little bit, when milk mixture cooled combine yeast mixture and milk mixture
- Add eggs and flour, mix
- Let flour rise until doubled in bulk
- Punch dough down and knead on floured board, set in 2 or 3 greased pans- let rise again.
- Mix topping together and sprinkle on the risen mixture
- Bake at 350º for 25 minutes
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