Homemade Dinner Rolls

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Homemade Dinner Rolls

 

Route 66 Home Made Dinner Rolls

 

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar

2 cups homogenized milk

1/2 cup mashed potatoes

1 cake yeast

2 Tbsp. warm water

2 eggs, beaten

4 cups sifted flour

2 Tbsp. baking powder

1 Tbsp. soda

2 Tbsp. salt

2 cups sifted flour

 

Directions:

Warm shortening, sugar and milk in saucepan until

shortening is melted.

Add mashed potatoes and cool.

Dissolve yeast in 2 Tbsp. warm water and add

to beaten eggs.

Add this to the first mixture.

Sift 4 cups flour with baking powder,

soda, and salt.

Stir liquid mixture into these dry ingredients.

Put into large bowl and let rise in warm

surroundings to twice bulk.

This is a sponge.

Cover overnight with light cloth.

The next morning add remaining 2 cups of sifted flour

to the sponge and knead until satiny.

Put the dough in a greased bowl and let rise

in warm surroundings.

Knead on lightly floured board.

Form into rolls.

Preheat oven 425

Place these rolls on a greased pan and let

stand 5 minutes in warm surroundings until double in size.

Bake 15 minutes

Serves 10.

 

Old English Inn, Tulsa, Oklahoma, along Route 66

 

 

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