Route 66 Home Made Dinner Rolls
Source of Recipe
Old English Inn, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
List of Ingredients
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups homogenized milk
1/2 cup mashed potatoes
1 cake yeast
2 tablespoons. warm water
2 eggs, beaten
4 cups sifted flour
2 tablespoons. baking powder
1 tablespoon. soda
2 tablespoons. salt
2 cups sifted flour
Recipe
Warm shortening, sugar and milk in saucepan until
shortening is melted. Add mashed potatoes and cool.
Dissolve yeast in 2 tablespoons. 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, Place
these rolls on a greased pan and let stand 5 minutes
in warm surroundings until double in size. Bake 15
minutes at 425 degrees.
Serves 10.
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