1/3 c Butter 4 Granny Smith Apples 3/4 c Sugar 1 ts Lemon peel 1/2 ts Cinnamon 1/8 ts Mace 1/3 c Currants 2 1/2 c Flour 3 tb Sugar 1/2 ts Salt 1 pk Active dry yeast 3/4 c Water 1/3 c Butter 1 Egg 1 ts Lemon peel 3/4 c Chopped pecans 6 tb Flour 1/4 c Confectioner's sugar 3 tb Butter 1/4 ts Cinnamon Melt butter in large skillet. Pare,core and slice apples to 1/2" pieces. Add apples to butter and cook, stirring, 8 minutes until tender. stir in suygar, peel, cinnamon, mace andcurrants. Cook 15 minutes, stirring until thickened. Cool. In large bowl, combine 1 cup flour, sugar,salt and yeast. In small saucepan, combine water and butter. Heat on low flame until 120 F Gradually add to dry ingredients. Beat 2 minutes, Beat in egg, peel and 3/4 cup flour. With mixer, beat 2 minutes. Add remianing flour, stir in. Cover, let rest 20 minutes. Grease 2 baking sheets. Place half the dough on well floured work surface, roll to 14"x12". Place on sheet. Spread 1/2 filling lenghtwise down center of the dough,. Starting about 3/4" for filling, cut 1" wide strips diagonally from filling to edges of dough. Alternately fold opposite strips of dough at angles across filling. Fold ends over filling. Brush large piece of waxed paper with vegetable oil. Loosely cover sheet. Top with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 2 hours. Uncover, let stand at room temperatue 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 F. Combine rest of ingredeints for topping. Sprinkle over loaves. Bake 30-25 minutes until lightly browned. Remove from sheet. Cool. Preparation time 1 hour. Total time 4 hours. Formatted for MM7 by Marge Nemeth-GNFK05B When I make this, my husband calls me Mrs. Entenmann!! Converted by MMCONV vers. 1.40
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