Christmas Tree Bread Recipe
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Christmas Tree Bread
BREAD
1/2 cup Margarine
1/2 cup Sugar
2 tsp Salt
2 cup Milk, scalded
2 Env active yeast
1/2 cup Warm water
2 Eggs, lightly beaten
8 cup Unsifted flour
FRUIT NUT FILLING
Red and green candied
-cherries, drained
1 Tube (3/4 oz) white
-decorator frosting
Apricot glaze
FRUIT NUT FILLING
1 1/2 cup Light corn syrup
1 1/2 cup Chopped mixed candied fruit
1 1/2 cup Sliced almonds
APRICOT GLAZE
1/2 cup Light corn syrup
1/2 cup Apricot preserves
In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat margarine, sugar and
salt. Add milk, beating until margarine is melted. Sprinkle yeast
over water, stir until dissolved. Add to margarine mixture with eggs.
With mixer at low speed add 4 cups of the flour, 1 cup at a time,
beating until well mixed. Stir in remaining flour with wooden spoon.
On lightly floured surface knead 8 to 10 minutes or until smooth and
elastic. Place dough in greased bowl; turn to grease top. Cover with
towel; let rise in warm place 2 hours or until doubled in bulk. Punch
down dough; form into ball; cut into quarters. Set 2 quarters aside;
cover with towel. Use reserved quarters to make two Fruit Nut Loaves.
(Instructions at end of this recipe.)
On lightly floured surface roll out one quarter into rectangle 15x12
inches. Cut into 2 triangles each with a base of 10 inches, a height
of 12 inches and 15 inch sides. Place one triangle on large greased
cookie sheet. Reshape into triangle if necessary. Spread 1 cup of
Fruit Nut Filling over dough on cookie sheet to within 1/2 inch of
edge; moisten edges with water. Place second dough triangle over
fruit filled one pressing to seal edges. Roll out second quarter of
dough to 1/2 inch thickness. With 2 1/2 inch doughnut cutter cut 17
circles; remove centers. Overlap cut circles on tree triangle. Roll
out scraps of dough to 1/2 inch thickness; cut one 2 inch square.
Place on center of base of triangle to form "trunk" of tree. Cut one
3 inch star; place on top of tree. Cover; allow to rise in warm place
1 hour or until almost doubled in bulk. Bake in 350-F oven 35 minutes
or until golden brown. Remove from oven. Place cherries in center of
circles. While warm, brush lightly with glaze. Decorate tree with
decorator frosting. Makes one tree and 2 loaves.
Fruit-Nut Filling: In small saucepan stir together all ingredients.
Stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium heat and boil 1 minute.
Cool.
Apricot Glaze: In small saucepan stir together the corn syrup and
preserves. Stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium heat and
boil 1 minute.
Fruit Nut Loaves: Grease two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3-inch loaf pans. Roll
out each quarter of reserved dough into 15 by 9-inch rectangle.
Spread 1 cup of Fruit Nut Filling over each rectangle of dough to
within 1/2 inch of edge, roll each rectangle up from short side.
Press ends to seal; fold ends under; place seam side down into
prepared pan. Cover; let rise about 1 hour or until doubled. Bake in
350-F oven 40 to 45 minutes or until bread sounds hollow when tapped.
Remove from oven. While still warm, brush with Apricot Glaze.
Source: Mom's old magazine clippings- 1940's to 1970's Green Bay Press
Gazette (newspaper), December 13, 1978 |
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Diet hints and tips
If your aim is to become thin and also make improvements in your overall healthfulness, then, without doubt, you ought to commence a thoughtfully designed healthy daily routine. Ideally, this needs to incorporate five helpings of grains, fruit and vegetables every day and also incorporate the right proportion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
In deciding on a diet, you have to also try to reduce ingestion of refined carbohydrates, salt and fats.
When people first start dieting, they usually focus on chain store and big brand food items described as 'low-fat'. To do this is usually foolish, seeing that a food product may well be low in fat content, but nevertheless far too high in calories and carbs.
Learn to recognise the difference between hunger and thirst. Now and then at some stage in a normal work day, you guess that you want to eat but in actuality you might only want a refreshing glass of water or fruit juice. The feelings of thirst and hunger are quite similar, albeit one of them leads to a fat tummy and the other one doesn't.
Instead of thinking about which food types that you need to eliminate from your weight loss program, concentrate on the recommended foods which you should add to your meal plan. If you are able to bring in the recommended amount nutritious pulses and vegetables into your meal plan, you'll soon see that stop feeling hungry and have a far reduced risk of being seduced by those unwholesome mid-morning sweets and chocolate bars.
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