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Graham Rolls

From The Cook County cook book, 1912

Serves 6

Presented as published in 1912. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GRAHAM ROLLS.— Stir a pinch of salt and Y2. teaspoon of soda into 1 cup of sour milk. Add a little graham flour, then 1 beaten t%z and enough more graham flour to make a stifif batter, lastly add 1 teaspoon melted shortening, put in hot pans in hot oven. — Mrs. C. E. Westinghous, Mayfair, 111. PARKER HOUSE ROLLS.— Scald 2 cups milk, add 3 table- spoons butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt. When warm add 1 yeast cake disolved in Y\ cup lukewarm water and 3 cups flour; beat well, cover and let rise until light, cut down and add enough flour to knead and roll out to Yz inch thickness, shape with biscuit cutter first dipped in flour; dip the handle of a silver knife in flour and with it make a crease through the middle of each roll, 104 BREAD brush over half of each piece with melted butter, fold and press edges together, place in a greased pan, let rise and bake in a hot oven 15 minutes. — Mrs. Frank Ferguson, Franklin, 111. VARIATION I. — 3 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon salt. Scald 1 pt. sweet milk and pour it over 1 tablespoon sugar, ^vthen lukewarm, add 2 cakes compressed yeast, dissolved in 4 cups luke- warm water, then add 3 cups sifted flour. Beat hard, cover and let rise until it is a frothy mass, then add 3 cups more flour. Let rise again until twice its original bulk, place it on j-our kneading toard. Knead lightly. Then roll out ^ inch thick. With a bis- cuit cutter cut out the rolls; brush each piece with butter, fold and press the edges together, and place them in a greased pan 1 Inch apart. Let rise until very light and bake in a hot oven 20 min- utes.— ^^Mrs. Ohas. C. Evans, Winnetka, 111. POTATO ROLLS.— Pare and boil until soft 4 good sized po- tatoes; then mash them smooth and add 1 heaping tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 or 2 well beaten egg
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