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  • Small Family Dinner Rolls
  • Potato Refrigerator Rolls
  • Small Family Dinner Rolls
    • 2 tablespoons soft shortening
    • 1 package active dry yeast
    • 1 cup warm water
    • 2 tablespoons sugar
    • 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
    • 1 egg
    1. In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in water.
    2. Stir in sugar, salt, and half of the flour.
    3. Beat until smooth.
    4. Add egg and shortening.
    5. Beat in remaining flour until smooth.
    6. Scrape down side of bowl.
    7. Let rise in warm place until double in size, approximately 45 minutes.
    8. Punch down dough.
    9. Turn out on pastry sheet.
    10. Press dough flat.
    11. Cut with cutter or shape into cloverleaf.
    12. Place in tins and let rise again.
    13. Brush with melted butter.
    14. Bake in preheated 400 oven for 15-2o minutes
  • Potato Refrigerator Rolls
    • 1 cup mashed potatoes
    • 1½ cup water from cooking potatoes
    • 1 package yeast
    • 2/3 cup butter softened
    • 2/3 cup sugar
    • 1 1/2 tsp salt
    • 2 eggs
    • 7 cups flour
    1. Heat ½ cup potato water to 110-115 degrees.
    2. Add yeast and set aside.
    3. Cream butter, sugar, and salt in another bowl.
    4. Add mashed potatoes to butter mixture.
    5. Beat egg and add to yeast mixture.
    6. Beat egg and yeast mixture into potatoes.
    7. Add remaining one cup potato water.
    8. Add flour until dough no longer stick to bowl.
    9. Knead until smooth. Let rise until double in bulk. (about two hours)
    10. Punch down and use dough to make the necessary number of rolls.
    11. Round rest of dough in bowl and butter top.
    12. When taken from refrigerator to make more, let rise again before shaping rolls.
    13. To bake, preheat oven to 425.
    14. Form rolls on baking sheet.
    15. Bake 15-18 minutes or until lightly brown.
    16. If baked and frozen, brown in oven when ready to serve

Last Updated April 11, 2011

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