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Directions:Peel and cube potato. Put in a small pot and add enough water just to cover. Cook until potato is very soft. Save the broth. (I sometimes put potato and broth in a Ninja blender to incorporate the potato into the broth) You will want 2 cups total of potato broth and milk, 1/2 to 3/4 of it should be potato broth and the rest milk. Dissolve the yeast in luke warm water. You will need to stir it to make sure all the yeast is in the water. (Test water as you would for a baby's bath, on your wrist. If it feels just warmer than body temp that is good)
Put the All Purpose Flour in a large bowl. Start with the 5 cups. Add the salt, sugar, & stir, then add melted Crisco, eggs and potato broth/ milk into the flour. Start mixing and add the dissolved yeast. Stir till well incorporated, you may need to use your hands once all flour has moisture. Or you can use a mixer and dough hook. If it's really soft and sticky add another cup of flour to make a soft dough ball. Place on heavily floured pastry sheet or wax paper. Place dough ball on floured sheet and kneed, folding in one end to the center and the other end to center and pressing down in the center each time. Continue this incorporating a little flour as you kneed until the dough is smooth and elastic. Place in a large clean glass or stainless steal greased bowl. Place a clean dish towel over the bowl. Set in warmest place in your kitchen away from drafts or air conditioning vents. Let the dough double in size.
If you are going to bake cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls now, start preheating your oven to 350º
When dough has doubled, punch it down by putting your fist in the center of it and pushing it down releasing all the air from the dough. Place on floured sheet and roll out to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick depending on what you are making.
DINNER ROLLS: You can either roll out dough 1/2 inch thick and cut rolls and put on a baking sheet and allow to rise or you can make Parker House Rolls by rolling dough into walnut size balls. Put 3 balls into each buttered cup of a large size muffin pan. Let rise and bake at 350º for 20 - 25 mins or until golden brown on top.
You may also freeze Cinnamon Rolls, Donuts and Dinner Rolls after cutting or shaping balls. When you get ready to use them put rolls on a buttered baking sheet touching so they rise up and not out, cover and let thaw and double in size. For Parker House Rolls, butter the muffin cups, put 3 dough balls in each one, cover and let thaw and rise till double in size. |
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Notes: This is a Corrie tradition started by my grandmother, Loretta Corrie. Her mother may have made this dough also. Because it has German origin I feel like this was a recipe passed down from other generations. Mamaw made the dinner rolls for special occasions and always made cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning , as well a Poor Man's Pie. You have to forget nutrition and just enjoy the deliciousness. Mamaw would be up and down all night tending to the dough so it would be ready to bake early on Christmas morning.This was before freezers. She made donuts a couple times a year just because...She kept our family smiling.
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