- 30 mins
- 50 mins
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Fleischmann's® RapidRise Yeast
- ½ cup lukewarm water
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 eggs (beaten)
- ½ cup melted margarine
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt (cut back)
- 2 ½ cups warm water
- 8 cups all-purpose flour, or more if needed
- Cinnamon
- Brown sugar
- Margarine
Preparation
Step 1
1. In a large bowl dissolve 2 tsp. sugar with ½ cup lukewarm water, once dissolved add 2 tbsp. yeast. Let stand until yeast rises.
2. In pot melt ½ cup margarine. Add 1 tbsp. vanilla, ½ cup sugar, 1 tbsp. salt (cut back), and 2 ½ cups warm water.
3. Add yeast mixture with liquid mixture. Mix well. Once mixed, in a large bowl, add this mixture with flour.
4. Knead dough for about 6 – 7 minutes. Only add flour in when the dough gets too sticky to knead. Make sure your hands are floured, and work that using the old kneading method – half turns and push it with your palm.
5. Knead until you have a smooth and elastic, but still soft and slightly sticky dough. Don’t work too much flour into the dough, only add flour if it gets to sticky to work with. So knead it until it gets to this point. Let rise for three – four hours (the longer the better).
6. Prepare the yeast dough. Once the dough has risen once, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Flatten the dough with the palms of your hands and gently stretch and/or roll it into a rectangle.
7. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out into a larger rectangle, approximately 12 inches wide by 20 inches long. The dough might be sticky, so flour the work surface and the rolling pin, checking to be sure the dough isn't stuck to the work surface and adding more flour as necessary.
8. Spread the softened butter over the surface of the dough, leaving a 1-inch strip along the long edge of the rectangle furthest away from you completely dry.
9. Generously sprinkle cinnamon and brown sugar over the butter, spreading the mixture evenly across the whole sheet of dough. Leave the 1-inch border free of sugar.
10. Add any other fillings desired--raisins, nuts, to distribute them evenly.