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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 40 Minutes |
Ready In: 40 Minutes Servings: 40 |
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A recipe from the revered Maas Brothers luncheon counter. My mom used to take us downtown for Christmas shopping and we would sit at the lunch room and devour the cinnamon twists. It was a terrific place for ladies who lunched. Read more . I can remember seeing the white gloves and the hats on all the ladies and it was so elegant. Plus, there was a real Santa Claus with big candy canes. Ingredients:
1/2 cup of cold water |
2 oz. of yeast |
3 eggs |
1/2 cup of sugar |
1/2 cup of vegetable shortning (use the new no trans fat) |
3 1/2 cups of sifted bread flour |
1 tablespoon of dry milk powder |
1 1/2 teaspoon of salt |
1 teas of vanilla flavoring |
1 teas of lemon flavoring |
melted butter |
cinnnamon and sugar (2 to 1 mix sugar to cinnamon) |
Directions:
1. Dissolve yeast in water. Add eggs, sugar and shortning. Mix until creamed. Add remaining ingredients and mix well 12 to 15 minutes.
2. Let stand at room termperature for 1 1/2 hours. Punch down.
3. Let rise another 30 minutes. Cut dough into two pieces. Place in refrigerators for 15 minutes to rest. Roll out each piece of dough to approximately 8 x 16 inches. Brush one side with melted butter; sprinkle liberally with a 2 to 1 sugar and cinnamon mixture.
4. Fold outer edges of dough toward the center strip of dough.
5. Repeat brushing with melted butter and sugar cinnamon mixture.
6. Fold dough in half, edge to edge. Equal to 4 layers of dough.
7. Roll the strip to four inches in width. Cut each strip every 3/4 inch.
8. The piece of dough now 3/4 by 4 inches should be twisted once and place in a shallow 20 inch greased pan.
9. Place each twist against each other. Brush tops of twists with mileted butter and sprinkle liberally with cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake in 350 degrees oven 40 minutes.
10. For those questioning the folding technique:
11. You fold the long sides toward the middle til they meet and then, butter, sprinkle and fold them again. I wish I could draw a picture and show you. Have you see the pictures of a palmiers? They kind of look like that before they get cut into strips and then twisted. Next time I feel like baking.....and we do have Customer Service Week coming up at work (need to feed the masses then)......And if I don't have to work all weekend again, I'll see if I can make a batch. They aren't hard, it is mostly waiting for the yeast to do it's thing. Of course, this is mostly a memory thing for me, Maas Brothers was a treat with my mom. The cinnamon twists were wonderful, the atmosphere fancy , and the shopping was delightful. It was the old time department store with a bargain basement and 3 floors of wonderful items. The Mezzanine had the lunchroom and the best tables in the house were overlooking the sales floor below and watching the frenzied shopping ballet.
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