Sunday, November 14, 2010

Dinner Rolls

This recipe was given to me by a friend who works for the school district. She told me that every few weeks an elderly lady brings them in cinnamon rolls that are to die for and got the recipe from her. She insisted that I try making the cinnamon rolls since I’m the baker out of our friends. Turns out, the recipe is for potato bread that the lady used to make cinnamon rolls. I tried using the bread for cinnamon rolls, however in my opinion, the dough is hard to manipulate into cinnamon rolls. On the brighter side of things, the dough makes excellent rolls! This recipe makes a very large amount of dough and can make about 48 rolls.
Ingredients
•    3 packs dry yeast
•    1/3 cup warm water (110 degrees)
•    1 cup shortening
•    1 cup sugar
•    1 ½ T salt
•    1 cup instant potatoes
•    2 cups milk
•    2 cups water
•    3 eggs
•    A lot of flour
Directions
•    Dissolve the 3 packs of dry yeast into the warm water (110 degrees) in a small bowl
•    In a large bowl cut in the shortening and add sugar, salt, and instant potatoes
•    Heat the milk and water to 130 degrees and add to the potato mixture, mix well
•    Let stand 1 minute
•    Add the 3 eggs and mix with an electric mixer
•    Add enough flour to make soft dough and mix for 3 minutes (hard to determine how much flour)
•    Add enough flour to make stiff dough and spread out onto a floured surface and knead 5-8 minutes adding more flour as needed
•    Place in large bowl and let stand until the dough rises to double
•    Pour out onto floured surface knead to get all of the bubbles out
•    Separate into 4 even pieces – each piece will make 12 rolls
•    Let rise 20-30 minutes than bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes or until tops turn golden brown
•    Enjoy!

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