Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Granny Davis' Favorite Recipe

What is your favorite recipe and why?
Cinnamon Rolls
Grease 2 (9x13) pans.
Make a caramel topping with
1 c. brown sugar
2 t. water
2/3 c. margarine
Heat together until dissolved and spread in bottom of pans.
Bread dough
1/2 c. sugar
2c. lukewarm water
2 pkg. dry yeast
1 t. salt
6 1/2 c. flour
2 eggs
1/2 c. melted butter or shortening
butter
brown sugar
cinnamon
Put sugar, water, and yeast together and mix. Add salt and 2 c. flour. Beat 2 min. Add eggs and melted butter and beat 1 min. Gradually add 4 1/2 c. flour. Stir well. Rest dough for 20 min. Roll out to about 1/2 inch thickness and spread generously with butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll up jellyroll fashion cut into about 1 inch rolls and place cut side down about 1 inch apart (or more if space in 2 pans allows) in sugared pans. Let rise 40 min. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 min. Remove from oven. Let set rightside up about 5 min. Then turn out into cookiesheets with sides to completly cool.
I`m hoping to be as good at these as Big Granny was. This is not her recipe but an easy one that I baked many a dozen in the mid 1980`s to earn money for Sarah`s softball team. They sold for $7 a dozen an outrageous price to me for maybe a $1 of ingredients.
At NSC in the mid 1960`s I was one of the few in Foods 103 that could bake bread pretty consistantly so I helped alot ( to the point of literally making nearly everyone`s bread) with that assignment. Little did the instructor know that if it failed to rise properly it went into the disposal and we started over. We could do this because it was a lab class and we worked at odd times on our own.
Wonder if the grocery budget was high that semester!!!

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  1. Way to go, Mom! It looks like you're figuring this blogging thing out!

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