breakfast fruit sticks

Mesa, AZ
Updated on Jun 24, 2012

My Great Aunt Rita always took these camping. My mom and I always make them for Christmas and Easter. An easy yeast bread with raving reviews.

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yield approximately 16

Ingredients

  • 1 package active dry yeast
  • 1/4 cup lukewarm water
  • 1 cup milk, scalded
  • 1 cup crisco shortening
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 2 - egg yokes, slightly beaten
  • 1 can fruit pie filling (cherry, peach, apple0
  • - powdered sugar frosting
  • - chopped nuts

How To Make breakfast fruit sticks

  • Step 1
    Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water and set aside. Cool scalded milk to lukewarm.
  • Step 2
    Sift flour, salt and sugar together. Cut in Crisco with pastry cutter. Add egg yokes, lukewarm milk and yeast mixture. Stir until well mixed. Kneed for awhile. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
  • Step 3
    In the morning... Cut the dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll on floured surface into a rectangular shape the width of a jelly roll pan and about 6" wide. Place dough on jelly roll pan. Spread 1/4 can pie filling down center of rectangle. Mentally divide the rectangle into thirds. Flap the outer thirds over the middle third covering the filling. Continue with remaining three pieces of dough.
  • Step 4
    Cover with a dry clean towel and let rise for 1 hour. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove from oven. Cook on rack.
  • Step 5
    Frost with powdered sugar frosting and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Slice into 1 1/2" slices.
  • Step 6
    Suggested combinations: Peach pie filling with chopped pecans Apple pie filling with chopped walnuts Cherry pie filling with sliced almonds
  • Step 7
    To modernize this recipe a bit. You can use the dough hooks on your mixer. Makes the prep time go much faster. You can also substitute the powdered sugar frosting for canned vanilla. When I use my dough hooks, I still kneed for a bit by hand. Does my soul good to get my hands into it!

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