LEISMEISTER’S KUCHA

by Barry Ingenthron
(Airdrie, AB, Canada)

¾ cup Milk

¼ cup shortening
1/3 cup sugar
2 pkg. Yeast
1 ½ tsp salt
½ cup luke warm water
2 eggs
4 cups flour

Scald milk. Add sugar, salt and shortening. Cool to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in water with 1 tsp sugar.

Stir in remaining flour. Turn dough out on lightly floured board and knead until smooth and elastic. Place dough in greased bowl and brushy top with soft shortening. Cover. Let rise until double in bulk. Roll out dough.

Filling:

4 or 5 eggs
Vanilla
3 cups sour cream (Large Tub)
- Can use melted ice cream too...omit sugar.
½ cup of flour
Approximately
3 cups of sugar

Add sugar to cream and let dissolve, Mix together other ingredients.

Do not use pears, they are not very good

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Dec 23, 2013
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kucca or cucca
by: mike martin

Contact heintzmans bakery in louisville ky. They hace butter,cherry, apple, peach and many more. I just received ny christmas cuccas and they were shipped with no problen. And i now live in chicago

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MORE INFO. ?
by: Anonymous

IS THERE MORE TO THIS RECIPE ? I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THIS..MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS MADE IT FOR US. THANKS

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