Potato Buns I - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 medium potatoes
1 pkg. dry yeast
1/4 c. warm water
1/2 c. lard
1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. salt
5 c. flour, unsifted
1/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. flour
1 Tbsp. butter

Preparation

Have all
ingredients
at
room
temperature.
Peel
and quarter potatoes, then cook
in salted water.
When potatoes are soft, sprinkle yeast into 1/4
cup
warm
water.
Drain
potatoes and reserve 1/4 cup potato water.
Mash
potatoes.
Add
lard
and sugar
to the potatoes, beating until lard is melted and the potato mixture is smooth.
Add the beaten eggs, potato water
and salt
and mix well.
Stir in the yeast, then half the flour. Knead
in
2
1/2
cups
flour.
Place in greased bowl.
Cover and let
rise
until
double.
Then turn dough and knead 2 minutes. Shape into
balls 2-inches in diameter and place in 3 greased 8-inch pans with
buns
barely
touching.
Cover
and
let
rise. Make crumbs with 1/4 cup
sugar, 1/4 cup flour and butter.
After cakes have risen 40 minutes, brush top with sweetened water (1 teaspoon sugar in 3 tablespoons water).
Top with crumbs.
In 350\u00b0 oven, bake 20 minutes.