Snails (Cake)

Ingredients

• some German coffee cake dough
• about one-quarter inch thick
• some currants
• citron chopped fine
• sugar
• cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Take some German coffee cake dough and roll out into a square sheet, about one-quarter inch thick.

2. 2

   Brush over with melted butter, and spread with some currants, citron chopped fine, sugar and cinnamon.

3. 3

   Roll the sheet of dough into a roll, and cut in slices about one-quarter inch thick.

4. 4

   Lay them on a buttered pan and allow to raise until nearly double in size.

5. 5

   Bake in moderate oven, and when done, and still hot, coat over with thin lemon icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 148. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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