Half-Puff Yeast Dough, with Butter
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- stakan milk
- tsp salt
- zolotnik dry yeast
- egg yolks
- funt butter
- funt wheat flour
Instructions
- Beat milk, salt, yeast, yolks, 1/16 funt butter and flour smooth; let rise (preferably cool).
- Beat down, roll in a cool place, brush with very soft butter and fold; chill and repeat up to three times; let rise cold.
- Roll, fold, fill, pinch, let rise, glaze with butter-yolk-water, dust with rusk crumbs.
- Bake in a hot oven ~1/2 hour (no fish) or nearly an hour (with fish).