Doris Harters Dinner Rolls or Cinnamon Rolls
- 2 cups boiling water
- 4 tablespoons lard
- 1 34 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 compressed yeast cakes or 6 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 8 cups flour, sifted
- In Large bowl pour boiling water over lard, sugar, and salt, mix gently.
- Allow to cool to 120 to 130 degrees -- no hotter.
- The lard should be pretty close to completely melted.
- In seperate bowl, mix flour and yeast and combine.
- Using electric mixer beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture into the wet ingredients.
- Beat on low for 30 seconds, then increase speed to high for about 3 minutes -- then add next 1/3 of flour again mixing for approx 3 minutes, the the last 3rd of flour mixture.
- At this point it may be too thick to use mixer so combine as best you can by hand, pouring out onto counter top and kneading it for about 8 minutes or until you can feel the gluten forming.
- Grease a clean large bowl, and place dough ball in, turning it to cover with grease.
- Cover and allow to rise to double it's size, about 1 hour.
- Remove from bowl and punch down.
- At this point you can form you dinner rolls and freeze them, or continue on shaping about 2 inch balls and placing on greased baking dish -- making a small cross at the top and basting with a bit of melted butter if you like.
- Cover and allow to rise about 30-45 minutes.
- Bake in oven at 350 degrees until a light golden brown on top -- about 30 minutes depending on your oven.
- This dough also makes a fantastic Cinnamon Roll dough, simply by taking it after the first rising, roll out into a rectangle approx 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.
- Melt butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon together and spread over the dough.
- then roll it up jelly roll style, cut into 1/2 inch rolls, place on greased baking pan, and allow to rise 30- 45 minutes, then bake as if dinner rolls.
- Make a confectioners sugar frosting -- with a bit of cream cheese mixed in and frost these.
- If you like add raisins or chopped dates to the filling and really kick these rolls up a tad.
boiling water, lard, sugar, salt, yeast cakes, flour
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/doris-harters-dinner-rolls-or-cinnamon-rolls-482971 (may not work)