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Plum Buns Recipe (Baba's recipe from Circa 1910)

MelissaKNorris
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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 55 minutes
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

  • 12 prune plums
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 cup milk plus 1 Tbsp for egg wash
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup sugar plus extra for plums
  • 2 eggs plus 1 for egg wash
  • 1 Tbsp active dry yeast
  • ½ tsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add milk and heat until warm, but not hot. Stir in yeast. Allow yeast mixture to proof for about 10 minutes.
  • *If liquid is too hot it could kill the yeast, so be sure to heat milk/butter mixture just enough to warm it to about room temperature or slightly over.
  • Mix flour, sugar and salt together on low in a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add both eggs and increase the stand mixer speed slightly. Add the yeast/milk/butter mixture and continue to mix until the dough forms a ball on the dough hook and there is no dough stuck to the sides of the bowl.
  • Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead well until dough is smooth (about 10 minutes). Form dough into a ball. Grease a stainless steel, glass or plastic mixing bowl with butter or oil so dough doesn’t stick. Place dough in bowl, cover and let rise until it’s roughly doubled in size (about an hour).
  • Wash plums while waiting for dough to rise. Then, using a pairing knife, make a slit in the side of each plum wide enough to pop the pit out. Once pitted, toss plums in about ¼ cup of sugar making sure to fill each plum with sugar as well.
  • Once dough has risen, turn it out onto a floured surface and punch it down. Divide it into 12 equal parts and roll into balls.
  • Make a dent into each dough ball and place a plum inside. Then wrap the dough around the plum, covering it completely.
  • Pinch the dough together to seal the dough around the plum. (If dough doesn’t seal completely that’s okay! But to make it a true plum bun, try to seal the plum completely in the middle.
  • Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish and place buns in dish. Let buns rise again for about 25 minutes. Preheat oven to 375º F.
  • Brush buns with an egg wash mixture of 1 egg and 1 Tbsp of milk. Place buns in oven and bake for about 25 minutes. Tops of buns should be golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool before serving.
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