Addeline's Yeast Rolls

earnie

earnie

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Addeline's Rolls (for rolls or cinnamon rolls)

1 Quart buttermilk

2 Cakes yeast

1/2 Cup sugar

1 Tablespoon salt

1 Cup melted shortening

1 Teaspoon soda

10 cups flour, sifted

Heat buttermilk to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast and soda in 1/3 cup lukewarm water. Add to buttermilk. Add sugar, salt & shortening. Work in flour. The dough will be very soft. Let rise 1 1/2 hours. Shape into rolls. Let rise again. Bake 375 for 20 minutes

Makes 5-6 dozen rolls

These freeze well. When taken from freezer, it takes 10 to 20 minutes in moderate oven to warm.

 
For the yeast cake challenged smileys/smile.gif what would be the equivalent amt. of instant yeast to 1 yeast cake?

 
A bit less: 2 1/4 tsp dry yeast for a SMALL cake of fresh yeast.

4.5 tsp dry yeast for 2 small cakes.
6 3/4 tsp of dry yeast for a LARGE cake.

SMALL cake of fresh yeast is equivalent to 0.6 oz. cake yeast, or one 0.25 oz. packet dry yeast, or 2 1/4 tsp dry yeast. Each section will raise up to 4 cups of flour.

 
oh, that must be an older recipe. They should specify LARGE or SMALL cake. The

LARGE is three times the amount of yeast of SMALL.

I "think" that recipe is calling for 2 small cakes (8-12 cups of flour) or you could get away with the extra boost of 1 LARGE cake based on the amount of flour.

 
I appear to be a bit emphatic about the size of the fresh yeast cake. This is because

when I was around 10, I pulled out my mom's black&white cookbook collection (different topic for each section--3-hole punched, put together into one book) to make cinnamon rolls.

I used the fresh yeast that my mom always bought (there were seven of us at that time) and it was LARGE cake. I didn't even know such a thing existed as a small cake. Unfortunately the recipe called for one cake of yeast and it meant SMALL.

Do the math.

We had a wall oven and everyone came and crowded around, looking inside as those suckers physically swelled up AS WE WATCHED and expanded to fill half the oven. Oddly enough, they worked out. My godmother was visiting and graciously said they were the best cinnamon rolls she ever had.

(They certainly were soft and puffy!)

 
What a cute story! smileys/smile.gif Thanks for sharing, and also your YC research

I think I can now attack some old family recipes that reference a yeast cake (size not specified smileys/smile.gif
The ratio of yeast to cups of flour is most helpful!
TY!

 
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