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milk lukewarm, butter soft; dough shaggy before butter is fully worked in

Combine the milk, yeast, sugar and egg, then add flour, salt, cinnamon and allspice. Mix to a shaggy dough before working in the softened butter. Enriched dough develops strength more reliably when the flour first hydrates and begins forming gluten instead of being coated immediately in fat.