breakfast fruit sticks

How To Make breakfast fruit sticks

• 1

  Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water and set aside. Cool scalded milk to lukewarm.
• 2

  Sift flour, salt and sugar together. Cut in Crisco with pastry cutter. Add egg yokes, lukewarm milk and yeast mixture. Stir until well mixed. Kneed for awhile. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• 3

  In the morning... Cut the dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll on floured surface into a rectangular shape the width of a jelly roll pan and about 6" wide. Place dough on jelly roll pan. Spread 1/4 can pie filling down center of rectangle. Mentally divide the rectangle into thirds. Flap the outer thirds over the middle third covering the filling. Continue with remaining three pieces of dough.
• 4

  Cover with a dry clean towel and let rise for 1 hour. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove from oven. Cook on rack.
• 5

  Frost with powdered sugar frosting and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Slice into 1 1/2" slices.
• 6

  Suggested combinations: Peach pie filling with chopped pecans Apple pie filling with chopped walnuts Cherry pie filling with sliced almonds
• 7

  To modernize this recipe a bit. You can use the dough hooks on your mixer. Makes the prep time go much faster. You can also substitute the powdered sugar frosting for canned vanilla. When I use my dough hooks, I still kneed for a bit by hand. Does my soul good to get my hands into it!
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