Rolls Recipe ✶ Potato Rolls

I have been eating these rolls since I was a kid. I don't know where they started out, but I remember my grandmother making them. They freeze well and taste great split open and toasted.

Ingredients

• 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
• ¼ cup warm water
• 1 cup scalded milk, cooled
• ½ cup prepared mashed potatoes
• ¼ cup vegetable shortening
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 egg, beaten
• 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour

Cooking Directions

1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in a bowl. Let stand until the yeast softens and begins to form a creamy foam, about 5 minutes.
2. Mix milk, mashed potatoes, shortening or butter (see Cook's Note), sugar, and salt together in a bowl; add yeast mixture and egg. Stir 2 cups flour into the milk mixture until incorporated. Stir in remaining 2 cups flour to make a soft dough.
3. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 7 minutes. Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, turning once to coat all sides of dough with oil. Cover bowl and put in a warm place until dough has doubled in size, about 1 hour.
4. Punch dough down and shape into a ball. Cover the bowl and let rest for 10 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 2 baking sheets.
6. Shape dough into 24 rolls and place onto prepared baking sheets; let rise until dough springs back when you touch the side of a roll with your fingertip, about 25 to 40 minutes.
7. Bake rolls in the preheated oven until golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories125.1
• carbohydrateContent21.4 g
• cholesterolContent8.7 mg
• fatContent2.8 g
• fiberContent0.8 g
• proteinContent3.2 g
• saturatedFatContent0.8 g
• sodiumContent166.4 mg
• sugarContent2.7 g