Old english inn \"route 66\" rolls

10 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Shortening
½ cup Sugar
2 cups Homogenized Milk
½ cup Mashed Potatoes
1 Yeast Cake
2 tablespoons Warm Water
2 Eggs -- beaten
4 cups Flour, Sifted
2 tablespoons Baking Powder
1 tablespoon Soda
2 tablespoons Salt
2 cups Flour, Sifted

Directions

Warm shortening, sugar, and milk in saucepan until sortening is melted. Add mashed potatoes and cool. Dissolve yeast in 2 Tbs warm water and add to beaten eggs. Add this to first mixture. Sift 4 cups flour with baking powder, soda, and salt. Stir liquid mixture into these dry ingredients. Put into a 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 mins in warm surroundings until double in size. Bake 15 mins at 425 F. Makes enough rolls for 10 people.

Recipe By : The Route 66 Cookbook - ISBN 0-933031-80-7 From: Dan Klepach Date: 10-04-95 (22:58) (159) Fido: Cooking

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