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== Barnes Family Recipes ==
Recipes passed down through generations

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Rolls

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup shortening or butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 packets of yeast (4 and 1/2 tsp.)
  • 1/2 cup water(105-115F)
  • 1/2 cup luke warm milk
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 4 and 1/2 to 5 cups flour

Directions

  1. Place yeast in warm water and let sit (ensure activation before adding to other ingredients)
  2. Beat shortening/butter and sugar to mixture
  3. Add eggs, milk, and salt to mixture
  4. Add yeast/water to mixture
  5. Slowly add flour till dough starts to pull away from bowl
  6. Remove dough from bowl and knead on floured board
  7. Place in greased bowl and let rise till size doubles
  8. After doubling, remove dough and flatten on greased pastry sheet to a rectangular shape
  9. Spread soft butter on surface of dough
  10. Apply cinnamon and sugar mixture onto buttered surface to your liking
  11. Starting from long edge, roll to other edge until log shape is made
  12. Pinch dough to adjacent dough
  13. Mark off 12 rolls with a thin string
  14. Place string under dough at each mark and slice in circular manner
  15. Place rolls in a greased 9x13 cake pan
  16. Let rise in warm oven
  17. After rolls double in size, bake at 350F in oven for 25-30 minutes till lightly tanned
  18. Allow rolls to cool
  19. Apply icing