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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Beat egg whites until stiff. | 2. Set aside. | 3. Combine yeast and warm water, and let sit about 5 minutes. | 4. Add shortening, sugar, salt and 3 cups of the flour. | 5. Beat with dough whisk or heavy spoon for 2 minutes. | 6. Fold egg whites into yeast mixture. | 7. Gradually add flour 1/4 cup at a time, until dough comes together and begins to pull away from bowl. | 8. Turn onto a floured surface. | 9. Knead, adding more flour as needed, for 8-10 minutes, until smooth and pliable w/ bubbles. | 10. Place in a lightly oiled bowl, turn to coat, and cover with damp towel. | 11. Let rise until double, about 1 hour. | 12. Punch down, cover and let rise again until double (about 45 minutes.) Punch down and turn out onto lightly oiled surface. | 13. Divide dough into 18 equal pieces. | 14. Use rolling pin to flatten each piece into a 7 inch circle. | 15. Fold left side to center to form a flap. | 16. Fold next side into center. | 17. Repeat all the way around 4 times to make overlapping flaps. | 18. Lift the first flap to ease the last flap underneath. | 19. Press center to seal the dough. | 20. Takes some work, but they look pretty when you get the technique down! | 21. Place rolls upside down on a well-greased baking sheet, 3 inches apart to help them keep their shape. | 22. Let rise 30 minutes, turn right side up, let rise 15 more minutes. | 23. Preheat oven to 425. | 24. Put a shallow pan on the bottom shelf of oven. | 25. Lightly brush the rolls with egg wash. | 26. Sprinkle with poppy or caraway seeds or coarse salt. | 27. Place 1 cup of ice cubes in the heated pan in oven. | 28. Immediately put the rolls in and bake 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown (internal temp will read 190). | 29. Remove and cool on racks. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
yeast	2	tablespoons		66.6	7.3512	8.5968	0.324
water	2 1/2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
crisco	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
sugar	1	tablespoon		55.062	13.7724	0.0	0.0
salt	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
flour	6 -7	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
egg white	3			51.48	0.7227	10.790999999999999	0.1683
egg white	1		beaten	51.48	0.7227	10.790999999999999	0.1683
milk				-	-	-	-
caraway seed				-	-	-	-

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