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Grandma Nancy's Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cake Red Star Yeast or 3 1/4 pkts active dry yeast (blocks of cake yeast may be a thing of the past).
1/2 c sugar
2 c warm water
1 egg
"a palmful of" salt (a scant Tablespoon)
4 T Crisco, melted
5 1/2 c (or more) flour, divided
Butter, softened
Cinnamon
Sugar
Powdered Sugar
Directions:
Directions:
Pour warm water into bowl. Warm water should be 115-120ºF. It's worth measuring as hot water can kill yeast. Add sugar and yeast. Add egg & salt. Whip together till sugar & salt dissolved & mixture is a bit frothy.
Melt Crisco & set aside to cool a bit. Add 3 c flour and mix. pour in cooled (liquid) Crisco and mix well.
Add 2 & 1/2 c more flour; mix well.
Cover bowl of dough with light kitchen towel & place in warmish area and allow to rise until double in bulk.
It may be helpful to lightly grease bowl with Crisco & turn ball of dough once or twice to coat dough lightly with Crisco so it doesn't stick to bowl as it rises. It may take 1-2 hours to rise, depending on room temp.
Once dough has doubled in bulk, punch down. (This is very literal. Make a fist & punch dough ball.) Then turn dough out onto lightly floured surface. Cover with towel & let dough rest 5-10 minutes. Roll out into a large rectangle. Spread with softened butter. Then sprinkle cinnamon & sugar over all (the amount is to your taste. Sugar should cover all the dough, then sprinkle on as much cinnamon as you like. Or you can mix cinnamon into sugar before sprinkling over dough.) With long side of rectangle facing you, roll up dough. Once rolled, slice into rolls using serrated knife. (or you can use unflavored dental floss-slide under roll of dough; cross ends over top & pull til roll is cut). Place rolls cut side down in greased baking pan. Cover and again allow to rise (about 30-40 minutes. Bake at 350º til light brown.
When slightly cooled (or not), frost.
Frosting: softened butter, powdered sugar, milk. (1-2 tsp butter, 1 c pdr sugar, 1 T milk or to desired consistency)
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Blocks of yeast used to be sold in refrigerated section of grocery store. Haven't seen it in years so may be thing of the past. Packets of yeast work just as well. Don't forget to check expiration date on yeast package. If expired, you're sunk before you start.

 

 

 

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