Hortense'S Rolls(Serves 15) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. milk
1 tsp. salt
2/3 c. sugar
2/3 c. shortening
2 eggs
1/4 c. water
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 pkg. yeast
1/2 tsp. sugar
6 c. flour

Preparation

Mix the first 4 ingredients together; heat to lukewarm.
Let cool.
Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup water.
Add 1/2 teaspoon sugar to this mixture.
When cool, mix yeast, eggs and flour (with soda and baking powder already added).
Make out and let rise (about 3 hours in \"these air-conditioned houses,\" Hortense says).
Bake in oven at 400\u00b0.