Volume 12 , Issue 39

Home Comfort Cookbook - Rolls & Quick Yeast Breads

This week I promised you some yeast and quickbread recipes from the 1934 Home Comfort Cookbook put out by the Wrought Iron Range.

Remember when the smell of fresh baked rolls and breads filled the home? AND ... When your mom or grandmother would take the bread/rolls out of the oven and give you a slice with REAL butter? Hummmmmm Hummmm Good!!

We shall start with a Cinnamon Rolls first and follow up with a Quick Yeast Rolls recipe on page 34, that uses cake compressed yeast.

Cinnamon Rolls -- Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in one-fourth cup warm water, add one cup scalded milk and one and a half cups flour, mix batter and set in warm place to rise. When light, add one-fourth cup sugar, one-fourth cup shortening, two beaten egg yolks, one teaspoon salt and enough flour to form dough.

Work together and knead until smooth and elastic; cover closely and set in warm place to rise to double in bulk; turn onto floured board, roll out in a sheet, spread with four tablespoons soft butter or shortening, sprinkle with a little sugar and cinnamon, and roll up as a jelly roll and cut into sections and inch or more in thickness.

Put two or three tablespoons butter or shortening in an eight by ten baking pan, and distribute over this about three-fourths cup brown sugar; lay the rolls in sidewise or flat, and set aside to rise or become light.

Bake in a moderate oven and turn out top side down on a cloth to cool; bottoms will be found to be glazed with sugar. Makes about eighteen rolls.

Quick yeast Bread -- Dissolve one cake yeast in one-fourth cup luke-warm water. Scald two cups milk; add three tablespoons butter, two tablespoons sugar, two teaspoons salt, and let mixture cool to luke-warm. Add yeast liquid and thoroughly beat in three cups flour; cover and let rise until light; press down and knead in about two and one-half cups flour or enough to form elastic dough. Roll in ball put in dry greased bowl, cover, and let rise until light; knead again, form into rolls, brush with melted butter, and bake in moderate oven about twenty-five minutes.

If you want to make Parker House Rolls, then it states, "Prepare dough as for Quick Yeast Rolls, lightly roll out on floured board and cut in rounds with biscuit cutter; crease across center of each with the back of a knife, brush over with melted butter, fold one-half over the other, and place in greased pan far enough apart to allow for raising. Cover and let rise until light; brush tops with sweet milk and bake in moderate oven twenty-five to thirty minutes."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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