Lowney's Cook Book / Illustrated in Colors

by Maria Willett Howard

Swedish Rolls

• 2 cups milk
  ½ yeast cake
  ¼ cup lukewarm water
  4 eggs
  ¼ cup butter
  2 teaspoons salt
  ½ cup sugar
  1 cup currants
  3 tablespoons cinnamon
  flour to knead
  ½ cup chopped citron

Melt butter in scalded milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast, salt, eggs well beaten and flour to knead. Let rise; roll into a sheet; brush with melted butter; dredge with cinnamon and sugar; sprinkle with citron and currants; roll like jelly roll; cut in one half inch slices; place on buttered sheet; let rise. Bake one half hour.