Yeast Dough, Another Way

Ingredients

• stakan milk or water, warm
• zolotnik dry yeast
• funt wheat flour
• stakan melted butter
• eggs
• tsp salt
• tsp sugar

Instructions

1. Stir warm milk/water, salt, dissolved yeast and 1 1/2 stakan flour until smooth; set in a warm place until the surface cracks.
2. Beat in 3-4 yolks, fold in the whipped whites, and knead in the rest of the flour until it no longer sticks to a knife.
3. Work in 1/3 stakan melted butter until bubbly and it leaves the hands; let rise.
4. Shape pirog or pirozhki, let rise, brush the top only with egg, and bake.