Czech Prune Crescents

Total Time: 24 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 24 hrs Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 teaspoons yeast
• 1/4 water, warm
• 4 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup lard
• 1 cup milk, cold
• 3 egg yolks
• 3 egg whites, beaten stiff
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup prune, cut up, cooked soft

Recipe

• 1 dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water.
• 2 mix flour, salt, sugar.
• 3 cut in butter or lard.
• 4 add milk, egg yolks, and yeast.
• 5 mix well and refrigerate overnight. the dough is very soft and you need it to be cold to even work with it ,it does rise in frig very well . i always use gluten in my baking .
• 6 divide into 4 pieces. use floured hands to do this dough is still soft
• 7 roll out (each piece) 1/4 inch thick.
• 8 spread on filling and roll up like a jelly roll. i sprayed cookie sheet with pam and patted out with floured hands
• 9 place on a cookie sheet (it doesn't say to make a crescent shape but i think you do here).and you need large cookie sheet. as you see from pictures they rose and spread like crazy
• 10 let rise 1 hour. (it did not take an hour for me to get doubled ).
• 11 bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees fahrenheit.
• 12 ice with powdered sugar frosting, warm or cold.
• 13 filling:.
• 14 beat 3 egg whites until stiff.
• 15 add 1 cup sugar.
• 16 fold in 1 cup cooked cut up prune.