Long Johns Recipe Amish Cooking Baking Recipes

Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water. Heat milk to boiling point. Add sugar, lard, and salt to hot milk and cool to lukewarm. Then add yeast mixture. Add flour. Cover and let rise. Work it down, let rise again, then roll out and cut in pieces. Let rise and fry n deep fat.
Filling:
Mix flour and sugar. Then mix with milk and cook. When cold, add vanilla. Cream white sugar and Crisco. Then ad flavor and milk mixture. Add 1¼ cups or more powdered sugar; cream well. When Long Johns are cooled, cut tops and fill with filling.

1 pkg. yeast
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 pint milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup lard
1 tsp. salt
6 cups Robin Hood flour

Filling:
1½ rounded tsp. flour
1/2 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup Crisco
1¼ cup or more powdered sugar

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