Coffee Cake Crescents
1 cake compressed yeast
½ cup lukewarm milk
¼ cup butter
¼ cup sugar
2 eggs
3 ¼ cup sifted all-purpose flour
¼ cup butter
2 cups chopped pecan meats
¾ cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
➔Soften yeast in milk. Cream butter and sugar. Add yeast, eggs, and flour to make soft dough. Divide dough into 4 portions.
Roll out each portion the size of a large dinner plate. Spread each portion with soft butter. Sprinkle pecans, sugar, and cinnamon over butter.
Cut like a pie into 8 triangular pieces; roll each from the outside to inside, forming crescents. Place on buttered baking sheet; let stand 2 hours.
Bake (375F) for 20 minutes. 32 crescents.
Mrs. C. D. Pareira, St. Louis, Mo - A Taste of Texas ©1968