Ingredients
- 1 cake yeast - dissolved in 1/4 C warm water.
- 1 C Milk scalded and cooled
- 7/4 C Sugar
- 1/3 C Shortening
- 1 tsp Salt
- 5 C sifted flour
- 2 Eggs - beaten
- Melted butter
- Cinnamon & sugar mixture
Servings:
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast first
- Scald milk
- Add sugar, salt and shortening to milk.
- Cool milk mixture
- Add beaten eggs and mix
- Add yeast
- Add some flour and beat well
- Continue adding flour - just enough to make dough elastic
- Pour onto a well floured board
- Knead the rest of the flour in until dough does not stick to unfloured surface.
- Put in a greased bowl
- Let rise about one hour until double in size.
- Punch down and let rise again
- Rollout dough to about 1/2 " thick
- Spread with melted butter
- Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar
- Roll dough into a tube and cut about 1 - 1 1/2 inches apart.
- Place rolled rolls on a cookie sheet and let rise again until it feels light.
- Bake in a 415 - 425 degree oven for a few minutes then lower temperature to 350 degrees and bake for 20 minutes.
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