Dorothy's Dinner Rolls

Mix yeast and 1/4 c. sugar together until it dissolves, and set a side (believe me, the yeast liquefies with the sugar).

Mix the following ingredients together (I use the largest bowl with a cover that Tupperware makes)

11 c. flour
1 1/2 Tbsp. salt
3/4 c. sugar

Cut 1 cup of lard (I use Crisco) into the flour mixture.
Add 2 c. warm milk, 3 eggs beaten and then add the yeast.
Mix with spoon (either by hand or by mixer) (I did everything by hand)

Cover and let rise in warm place until doubled or can be placed in refrigerator over night.

This dough can be used for dinner rolls, Kolache's, sweet rolls, donuts, etc.

When ready to use your dough, lightly flour your bread board or table. Take the dough and punch it down and then make in to 4 balls. Take each ball and roll it our with your hands making a long sausage. Cut off small sections and knead into a ball. You can either take 3 small balls and put them into muffin tins to make clover dinner rolls, or just leave round, and either put in muffin tins or on cookie or jelly roll pans. Leave enough space between as the dough will rise again and when the bake they will expand. Another one you can make take a piece and roll it out like a sausage and tie in a knot. You can also roll into small balls and then let rise, once it has risen you put a thumb print in the center right before putting them in the oven. These imprint will be where you put your Kolache filling.

For the dinner rolls brush tops of rolls with 1 egg and 1 teaspoon milk. Sprinkle with Poppy seed, or what ever seed you prefer or leave plain.

Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes.

Poppy seed Filling for Kolaches

1 c. poppy seed (ground fine)
3/4 c. milk
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla

Bring milk to a boil, add salt and poppy seed. Then add sugar and cook slowly for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla and cinnamon. Cool spoon in center of Kolaches.

Other fillings can be used such as blueberry pie filling, apricot , apple, cherry, raspberry, cheese like for cheese cake (you would just make the filling like you would for a cheese cake and spoon it in before it before it got to firm).

Enjoy

***** Makes wonderful gifts when made up on a plate and wrapped, or put in a basket.