Quick Christmas Tree Bread

Name: Quick Christmas Tree Bread
Ingredients: 23 cups milk; 1/2 cup sugar granulated; 1 each eggs yolk and white separated; 3/4 cups fruit mix, diced, dried, or make your own, mixing raisins, currants, snipped dried apricots, apples, prunes; 2 1/2 cups flour, all-purpose; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice ground or 3/4 ts cinnamon,, ground and 3/4 ts cloves, ground; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 8 tablespoons butter cold, unsalted, cut into small pieces; 1 x sugar granulated, or homemade vanilla pearl

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Ingredients

23 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar granulated
1 each eggs yolk and white separated
3/4 cups fruit mix, diced, dried, or make your own, mixing raisins, currants, snipped dried apricots, apples, prunes
2 1/2 cups flour, all-purpose
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice ground or 3/4 ts cinnamon,, ground and 3/4 ts cloves, ground
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons butter cold, unsalted, cut into small pieces
1 x sugar granulated, or homemade vanilla pearl

Directions

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["Check to see that one rack is in bottom third of oven and heat oven to 425 degrees F. Measure milk in a 2-cup measure, add sugar and egg yolk, stir to mix well.", "Stir in dried fruit.", "Let stand until ready to use.", "Put flour, baking powder, spice, and salt into a large bowl, stir to mix well.", "Add butter and cut in with pastry blender or rub in with fingers, until mixture looks like fine granules.", "Stir milk mixture and pour over flour mixture.", "Stir with a fork until a soft dough forms.", "Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and give 10 kneads.", "(If very sticky, let stand 3 or 4 minutes or add a little more flour.)", "Cut off about one-fourth of the dough.", "Put remaining dough on an ungreased cookie sheet at least 16 inches long.", "Using both rolling pin and fingers, pat and roll dough into a flat triangle about 12 inches long and 9 inches wide across the bottom.", "With scissors, make about ten diagonal cuts down each long side of the triangle, cutting to within about 1 inch of the center.", "Shape a small piece of reserved dough into a trunk at bottom of tree and remaining dough into a \"pot.\""""