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King Bakery Cinnamon Smear

Part of the cinnamon bun: rolled into Sweet Dough, then finished with Cinnamon Bun Icing. The rolling instructions below are the only assembly detail recorded anywhere on the cards.

Ingredients

The Original Size column is the source of truth. The other two are exactly ⅓ and ⅙ of it.

Mix together

Ingredient	Original	⅓	⅙
Powdered Sugar	4082g	1361g	680g
Brown Sugar	4082g	1361g	680g
Cinnamon	1134g	378g	189g

Then add

Ingredient	Original	⅓	⅙
Regular Shortening	2722g	907g	454g
Butter	2722g	907g	454g
Eggs	1361g	454g	227g
Salt	28.3g	9.4g	4.7g
Vanilla	59mL	20mL	9.9mL

Eggs by volume, if you’d rather measure: 1420mL / 473mL / 237mL. The card’s own conversion is a pint of eggs to the pound, so 3 lb is 1½ quarts.

How to Make

Mix the powdered sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon together first. Then work in the shortening, butter, eggs, salt and vanilla.

Spread on the dough about ⅛ inch thick.

Don’t roll too tight or the centres will pop right up when they’re baked.

Notes

• Three figures differ from the card, deliberately — all roundings to something weighable in ounces:

  	Column	Card as written	Used here
  Cinnamon	⅓	13 oz → 369g	378g
  Cinnamon	⅙	7 oz → 198g	189g
  Salt	⅓	¼ oz → 7.1g	9.4g

  Salt at ⅙ was written as “a pinch” and vanilla at ⅙ as “a lite pour”; both are given properly above.

• Shortening and butter are 50/50 here — worth noting alongside the chocolate cake frosting, where the same question came up.
• 2½ lb of cinnamon against 18 lb of sugar is about 12% — assertive, and the point of the recipe.

Appendix — Original cards, as written

From the Sweet Dough card:

Cinnamon Smear Original Size 	1/3		1/6
Mix together:
Powdered Sugar 	9# 		3-0		1-8
Brown Sugar 	9# 		3-0 		1-8
Cinnamon 	2.5 # 		0-13		0-7

Then add:
Regular Shortening 6# 		2-0		1-0
Butter 		6#		2-0		1-0
Eggs		1.5 quarts. 	1/2 qt		1/4 qt
Salt 		1 oz		0-.25 		pinch
Vanilla 	2 oz		0-2/3		lite pour

Put this on the dough about 1/8 inch thick

Don't roll too tight or the centers will pop right up when they're baked.
Pint of eggs is 1#, 3 pounds is 1.5 quarts

From the separate Cinnamon Smear card — same recipe, plus two loose lines at the end:

Sticky Buns Smear
31C
3 inch cutter is what I want

31C is unexplained, and no sticky bun smear recipe was recorded — the heading appears with nothing under it. If you remember what it referred to, it belongs here.

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