Homemade Dinner Rolls

Do you love homemade dinner rolls?  When I cook a meal for my family or for a large holiday gathering, I love to make fresh baked homemade dinner rolls.   I love to watch everyone enjoy the freshly baked bread aroma when they enter the home.  It pleases me to see the expressions when they take the first bite of the warm roll with butter or apple butter on it.  Homemade dinner rolls are a beautiful and tasty enhancement to the delicious meal you have before them.

My cousin shared a nice family recipe which I am sharing with you.  Now, you, too, can feed your family some great freshly baked homemade dinner rolls.  Please note that this recipe will yield more than four dozen.

4 Tbps shortening

¾ C granulated sugar
1 ¼ tsp salt
2 eggs
2 C warm milk
1 C water
3 Pkgs of dry yeast (1 strip or 1 cake)
7 C flour

Cream shortening, sugar, salt and eggs.

Separately, add yeast to warm water, stir and let set. 
The next step is to heat the milk for one to two minutes in microwave. 
 
Add flour and knead the dough well. 
Be sure to mix well.
Add the shortening mixture, and yeast mixture to the warm milk.

Place the dough in a greased bowl and let it rise double in size.  Form the dough into rolls, and let rise and bake at 350 degrees for about 8-10 minutes.

Helpful Hints: 

            Warm Water:  Be sure your water is warm to the tough, a few degrees about room

             temperature and warm enough to dissolve the yeast.  Be careful that the water is not hot and              kills the active yeast which would causing the dough to NOT raise. 

             Warm Milk:  Same as the water.  Be sure that it is warm, not boiling hot, as it could kill

            the rising action of the yeast.

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