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Virginia Rolls

A vintage handwritten recipe for Virginia Rolls. Make these rolls with yeast, sugar, lukewarm water, scalded milk, melted shortening, sugar, salt, eggs, and flour.
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Ingredients

  • 2 packages of dry yeast or two cakes of yeast
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 cup lukewarm water
  • 2 cups milk scalded
  • 2/3 cup melted shortening
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 4 teaspoons salt
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 10 to 11 cups flour

Method

  • Soften yeast and dissolve sugar in water – add milk.
  • Cool to lukewarm, add shortening, sugar, and salt. {?} egg, beat well and add flour to make a soft dough.
  • Let stand ten minutes – kneed down and put in a greased bowl and set in the refrigerator.
  • Take out 2 hours before baking and make rolls.
  • Bake.

Kitchen Helper 2

Retro Hand Mixer
15-inch baking Pan
Retro Mixing Bowls
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Course Breads
Cuisine American

Notes

For 1/2 recipe use the following:
1 package of yeast
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 cup milk, scalded
1/3 cup melted shortening
3/8 cup of sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 egg
5 to 6 cups flour