Croissants
Recipe: #27645
August 18, 2017
Categories: Breads, Dinner rolls or other breads, Christmas, Easter, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Yeast Rolls, Flour, Kosher Dairy, more
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Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (33.3 g)
- Calories 108.8
- Total Fat - 5.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.3 g
- Cholesterol - 23.3 mg
- Sodium - 110 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 11.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 1 g
- Protein - 2.1 g
- Calcium - 12.3 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Dissolve yeast in Warm water.
Step 2
Add milk, shortening, sugar, salt, lemon peel, eggs, and 2 1/2 cups flour. Mix till smooth.
Step 3
Add enough remaining dough to make dough easy to handle.
Step 4
Add enough remaining dough to make dough easy to handle.
Step 5
Place dough in an oiled bowl, turning dough to coat in oil.
Step 6
Let rise, covered with a damp cloth, until doubled. approximately 1 hr.
Step 7
Punch down dough and chill 1 hr.
Step 8
Punch down dough again.
Step 9
Roll dough into a 25x10 rectangle and spread with butter.
Step 10
Fold into thirds, making 3 layers, roll out and repeat process 2 more times.
Step 11
Chill 1 hr.
Step 12
Divide dough and keep half chilled.
Step 13
Roll into 25x10 rectangle.
Step 14
Cut rectangle lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 5 squares.
Step 15
Roll up each triangle starting at the long side and curve to form crescent.
Step 16
Repeat with remaining half of dough.
Step 17
Chill 30 minutes.
Step 18
Heat oven to 425.
Step 19
Bake 15 - 18 minutes, or until golden.
Tips
No special items needed.