Half-Puff Yeast Dough, with Butter

Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Beat milk, salt, yeast, yolks, 1/16 funt butter and flour smooth; let rise (preferably cool).
  2. Beat down, roll in a cool place, brush with very soft butter and fold; chill and repeat up to three times; let rise cold.
  3. Roll, fold, fill, pinch, let rise, glaze with butter-yolk-water, dust with rusk crumbs.
  4. Bake in a hot oven ~1/2 hour (no fish) or nearly an hour (with fish).

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