Name: Easy Croissants
Ingredients: 1 c Warm milk; 1 ts Sugar; 1 tb Yeast; 1 c Flour; 3/4 c Milk, room temperature; 1 1/2 ts Salt; 1/4 c Sugar; 1 Egg, beaten; 1/2 c Butter melted and cooled; 4 c Flour; 1 c Cold butter; 1 Egg, beaten with cold water

As the flower in the garden stretches toward the light of the sun, so there is in the child a mysterious inclination toward the eternal light. Have you ever noticed this mysterious thing that when you tell the smallest child about God, [he or she] never asks with strangeness and wonder, “What or who is God – I have never seen Him,” but listens with shining face to the words as though they soft loving sounds from the land of home. Or when you teach a child to fold [his or her] little hands in prayer that [he or she] does this as though it were a matter of course, as though [it was] opening for [the child] that world of which [he or she] had been dreaming with longing and anticipation. Or tell them, these little ones, the stories of the Savior, show them the pictures with scenes and personages of the Bible – how their pure eyes shine, how their little hearts beat.

R.C.H. Lenski

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Breads	24	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Warm milk
1	ts	Sugar
1	tb	Yeast
1	c	Flour
3/4	c	Milk, room temperature
1 1/2	ts	Salt
1/4	c	Sugar
1		Egg, beaten
1/2	c	Butter melted and cooled
4	c	Flour
1	c	Cold butter
1		Egg, beaten with cold water

INSTRUCTIONS

Stir warm milk and sugar together.  Add yeast.  Let stand 10 minutes. Stir
well.  Add flour; beat well. Add milk, sugar and egg. Beat until smooth.
Add butter; beat and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, place the 4 cups of
flour and the chilled butter.  Cut butter into flour until pieces are the
size of beans (not too small). Pour the liquid batter into the flour
mixture; stir until moistened.  Cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. Remove from refrigerator.
Press into a compact ball on a floured board and divide into 4 parts. Roll
each into a circle 12" or 16".  Cut each circle into 6 or 8 pie-shaped
wedges.  For each croissant roll a wedge towards the point. Shape into a
crescent and place on ungreased baking sheet.  Let rise at room temperature
until doubled.  (May take 2 hours or more). Brush each with egg beaten with
cold water. Preheat oven to 400 F. Place croissants in oven. Lower
temperature to 350 F and bake for 15 - 20 minutes until golden. Makes 24 -
32.
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