Plucking Bread
Plucking Bread is a delightful sweet treat with cinnamon, sugar, pecans, and buttery layers, perfect for sharing at gatherings or enjoying as a warm dessert.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Take 3 cups flour, add sugar and salt, and resift.
- Scald milk and cool to lukewarm.
- Measure 1/2 cup milk and stir in yeast.
- Stir slightly beaten eggs and melted butter into remaining milk.
- Combine egg mixture with flour, sugar, and yeast mixture.
- Stir well until it looks like thick syrup.
- Cover with a towel and let rise for 1 1/2 hours.
- Stir in remaining flour and refrigerate overnight.
- Grease a large tube pan.
- Turn dough on a floured board and form into small ping-pong-sized balls.
- Dip each ball in melted butter and in cinnamon-sugar mixture.
- Form a single layer on the bottom of the pan and cover with pecans.
- Repeat until 3 layers are formed.
- Let rise until doubled in size.
- Bake at 325°F for 50 to 55 minutes.
- Remove from pan immediately and leave upside down on a plate.
- Best served hot.
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
688
kcal
34% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).