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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Scandinavian >> Swedish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. | 2. Place the yeast in a large mixing bowl. | 3. Melt the butter in a saucepan, turn the heat off and add the milk and sugar to it Heat until lukewarm and pour the mixture on the dry yeast. | 4. Cover with a towel and let stand until bubbles appear on the surface of the yeast mixture. If no bubbles appear your yeast is not active. Try again with fresh yeast. | 5. Add the salt and the flour, cup by cup, mixing until you have a dough that you can take out and knead on a lightly floured work surface. Knead the dough until smooth, but still soft. | 6. Place the dough in a large buttered bowl, cover with a towel and let stand in a warm place for about 1 hour. | 7. Turn the dough out on the work surface and knead for a couple of minutes. Divide into 4 equal pieces and make a ball of each piece. | 8. With rolling pin roll each ball out into a circle, about 1/4 inch thick and, with a pastry wheel or knife, cut the circle into 6 wedges of equal size. | 9. Starting at the broad base of each wedge, roll up and then bend the tips until you have a crescent shape. | 10. Place on a lightly buttered baking sheet and cover with a towel. Let stand in a warm place for about a35 to 40 minutes or until doubled in size. | 11. Brush with the beaten egg and sprinkle some poppy seeds on top. Bake about 25 minutes until golden brown. Try to serve hot. Yield: 24 crescents. Can be frozen. | 12. Breads Of The World. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
active yeast	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1/4	cup		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
milk	2	cups		297.68	23.3264	15.372	15.9576
sugar	2	tablespoons		110.124	27.5448	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
purpose flour	4 -5	cups		-	-	-	-
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
poppy seed	1/2	cup		352.8	18.9034	12.0893	27.9283

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.