German Coffee Bread
- 1 cup scalded milk
- 1/3 cup butter, or butter and lard
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1/3 yeast cake dissolved in 1/4 cup lukewarm milk
- 1/2 cup raisins stoned and cut in pieces
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 3 tablespoons butter
Add butter, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake, egg well-beaten, flour to make stiff batter, and raisins; cover, and let rise with love and patience over night; in morning spread in buttered dripping pan 1/2 inch thick. Cover and let rise with love and patience again. Before baking, brush over with beaten egg, and cover with following mixture: Melt 3 tablespoons butter, and 1/3 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. When sugar is partially melted, add 3 tablespoons flour.
Submitted by Aug 2, 2009
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