Lana's Rolls

Total Time: 5 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 hrs Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour (and one more later for kneading)
• 1 (1/4 ounce) package yeast (or 1 tbsp)
• 1 cup warm water
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 egg (beaten)

Recipe

• 1 in a small bowl add:.
• 2 1 cup warm water and one tsp sugar. stir to dissolve. sprinkle yeast over water, do not stir! set aside.
• 3 next:.
• 4 scald milk (thats when you bring milk to a boil and it rises or foams up and then take it off the heat immediately).
• 5 put scalded milk in a large bowl, add 1/3 cup sugar and stir. add shortening and stir until almost completely melted. then let this mixture cool.
• 6 add beaten egg to the yeast mixture (in a big bowl) and beat with beaters. gradually add the flour. eventually you will need to do this by hand as it will become increasingly more stiff.
• 7 transfer this mix to a floured board and begin to knead while adding in the extra cup of flour. this takes a bit of work but it will eventually form into a smooth ball.
• 8 put this into a greased stew pot to raise. cover it with a towel in a warm area for two hours at least. when it is at the top or almost the top of the pot, it is ready.
• 9 punch it, and let it rise again.
• 10 preheat oven to 350.
• 11 then pull out the dough and either divide it into two greased loaf pans or form small rolls and place them touching each other in a greased 10x13 pan.
• 12 bake for 15-25 minutes. they are done when they are brown all over and hollow sounding on top.
• 13 as an added touch butter the tops and cover with a towel when they are hot out of the oven.