Lowney’s – Swedish Rolls

Ingredients

• 2 cups milk (480ml)
• ½ yeast cake (approx. 10g dried active yeast)
• ¼ cup lukewarm water (60ml)
• 4 eggs
• ¼ cup butter (55g)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 100g)
• 1 cup currants (approx. 150g)
• 3 tablespoons cinnamon
• flour to knead
• ½ cup chopped citron (approx. 100g candied fruit)

Method

1. Melt butter in scalded milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast, salt, eggs well beaten and flour to knead.
2. Let rise; roll into a sheet; brush with melted butter; dredge with cinnamon and sugar; sprinkle with citron and currants; roll like jelly roll; cut in one half inch slices; place on buttered sheet; let rise.
3. Bake one half hour.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard