William Pollock's Eat Happy: Monkey Bread (formerly "Monkey Break")

Yield:

12 servings

Notes

Sadly no monkey is included in monkey bread

Ingredients

1 cup	milk
2 pkg	dry yeast
4 tbsp	sugar
1 tsp	salt
1/2 cup	melted butter
3 1/2 cup	sifted flour
1 egg	slightly beaten
1/4 cup	additional butter
1/4 cup	oil

Preparation

Scald milk and allow to cool to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in scalded milk in a large bowl. Beat in sugar, salt, butter, flour and egg.

Let double in a warm place and punch down. On a floured board, roll dough out to 1/4". Cut in diamond pattern 2 1/2 inches apart.

Dip each piece in a mixture of cooking oil and butter. Arrange in a a 9-inch ring mold and let rise until almost double. Bake 400F for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Pull apart to serve.

Primary Category:

Bread

Seconary Categories:

**New05

Source:

From "Sharing Our Favorites: the Dana Guild, Senshin Buddhist Church, Los Angeles, CA" -- Maurice C. Allen, Sr., page 48.