Need recipe for wreath bread! Please help! (a Betty Crocker cookbook might do the trick!)

[Red]

I want to make a bread I've made before, but I don't have the recipe. It's a sweet bread, with a filling of raisins, currants, some other fruits, maybe and I thnk nuts. It was frosted. It did NOT have red and green glace cherries.

I'm away from home and really want to make this. I'd settle for the recipe for the candycane shaped sweet bread in teh old Betty Crocker cookbook.

Teh real recipe might have been an old Jewish traditional bread-I think the wreath was a Christian relatives idea.

ANyone?!

[Princess ConsuelaB]

It sounds like it might be similar to the one my girls and I made today? It calls for raisins mostly but you could change up the filling to suit.


1 package yeast
1/4 cup lukewarm water
1/2 cup milk, scalded
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 slightly beaten egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp grated lemon peel
2 1/2 - 3 cups flour
2 TB butter, melted
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 slivered almonds
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Soften yeast in water. Combine next 4 ingredients and cool to lukewarm. Add the egg. Add vanilla, lemon peel and 1 cup of the flour; beat well. Stir in softened yeast; mix well. Add remaining flour to make a smooth soft dough.
Knead on floured surface until smooth and elastic. Place in greased bowl,turning once to coat. Cover and let rise until double, about 1 1/2 hours.
Punch down. Let rest 10 minutes. Roll to 21x7 inches, 1/4 inch thick.
Brush with melted butter. Combine remaining ingredients; spread on dough. Roll from long edge, seal. Shape ring on greased cookie sheet. With scissors, snip almost to center at 1-inch intervals. Pull sections apart; twist slightly. Cover, let rise until double, about 50 minutes.
Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes. Frost with icing: Mix 1 cup confectioner's sugar, 4 teaspoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and dash salt.