Grandmother Kingston's Rolls
Two
Cups Milk
1
teaspoon Salt
2
Tablespoon Sugar
2
tablespoons of Butter / Margarine (some like "heaping")
Feel
free to use a little extra salt and butter if no one is looking!
Combined above over medium heat stirring occasionally. Once butter melts and you can see steam frailing off of your stir spoon (when you hold it up in the air) remove mixture from heat and set aside.
2 Yeast Packets (or one heaping tablespoon of yeast could be better) / one half cup of warm water / teaspoon of sugar - combine and set aside
Slightly beaten egg - set aside
Once milk mixture is cool enough to easily run your hands through, add yeast and egg. (To ensure rising, you may wish to also add a half teaspoon of lemon juice.)
Then add six cups or so (sometimes more) of white flour and stir until mixture begins to form a ball. Pour dough out onto floured counter and knead adding more flour as required. After five minutes or so when dough begins to form a large ball (sort of), return dough to pot, cover with a dish cloth and put in unheated oven with the inside light on.
An
hour and a half later, remove dough and spread out over counter with a
rolling bin, keeping thickness at about
an inch or
so. Take a large
mouthed cup, glass, etc. - cut out circle. Take circle and fold
in
half, pinching sides
together. Set on its side on slightly greased
cookie sheet - you should get about three across.
Place cookie sheet back in oven with light on and let stand for another half hour. You may have to pinch some circles back together.
Then, turn your oven heat on to about 350 degrees (middle rack or higher) and remove when tops brown. Stand guard after about eighteen minutes or so!
ENJOY!