Basic Sweet Dough - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. milk
1/2 c. sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. Crisco
2 pkg. yeast
1/2 c. warm water
5 c. flour (about)
2 eggs

Preparation

Scald milk.
Put sugar, salt and Crisco into bowl.
Pour hot liquid over.
Stir and cool to warm. Soften yeast in warm water and add to ingredients.
Add about 2 cups of flour to mixture and stir.
Add eggs.
Beat mixture well.
Add more flour to make a dough that is soft but stiff enough to handle on board.