Danish Coffee Crescents Recipe
Ingredients
| Butter | 3/4 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Flour | 1/3 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| 1 1/2 packages yeast, active dry or compressed | ||
| Warm water | 1/4 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Milk | 1 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Sugar | 1/4 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| 1 egg, slightly beaten | ||
| Flour | 3 1/2 Cup (16 tbs), sifted | |
| Salt | 1 Teaspoon | |
Directions
Cut butter into flour, using pastry blender.
Pat into a ball, then flatten out in a 9-inch square on a baking sheet; put in freezer 20 minutes.
Sprinkle yeast into warm water; stir until dissolved.
Scald milk; add sugar and cool until lukewarm; mix in dissolved yeast and egg.
Put flour and salt in mixing bowl.
Add yeast and milk mixture and beat until smooth.
Turn out on a floured board and roll out into a 9 by 18-inch rectangle.
With spatula lift butter mixture onto half the dough.
Fold over dough and roll out.
Fold over 1/3 of dough from the left, then 1/3 from the right, and roll out.
Repeat twice more.
Refrigerate 1/2 hour.
Roll out dough 1/8 inch thick; cut into 3-inch triangles; roll and shape into crescents.
Place on greased baking sheet.
Let rise 45 minutes.
Bake in a very hot oven (450°) for 15 minutes.
Pat into a ball, then flatten out in a 9-inch square on a baking sheet; put in freezer 20 minutes.
Sprinkle yeast into warm water; stir until dissolved.
Scald milk; add sugar and cool until lukewarm; mix in dissolved yeast and egg.
Put flour and salt in mixing bowl.
Add yeast and milk mixture and beat until smooth.
Turn out on a floured board and roll out into a 9 by 18-inch rectangle.
With spatula lift butter mixture onto half the dough.
Fold over dough and roll out.
Fold over 1/3 of dough from the left, then 1/3 from the right, and roll out.
Repeat twice more.
Refrigerate 1/2 hour.
Roll out dough 1/8 inch thick; cut into 3-inch triangles; roll and shape into crescents.
Place on greased baking sheet.
Let rise 45 minutes.
Bake in a very hot oven (450°) for 15 minutes.
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