Sweet Roll Dough - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup warm water
2 (1/4 ounce) packages active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups milk, lukewarm
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening
7 - 7 1/2 cups flour

Preparation

Mix water and yeast in large mixing bowl.
Stir until dissolved.
Add milk, sugar salt, eggs, shortening and 1/2 of the flour.
Mix until smooth and pour out onto floured surface. Knead while adding the additional flour. Knead until smooth and elastic( about 5 minutes).
Round up in greased bowl with greased side up. Cover with damp cloth.
Let rise in warm place until double (about 1&1/2 hours).
Punch down; let rise again until almost double.
Dough is ready to to make into cinnamon rolls or dinner rolls now.