Author Notes
This is from one of my favorite Southern Cookbooks, Marion Brown's Southern Cookbook, first published in 1951. It has been reissed by the UNC Press. My parents had a copy held together by rubberbands, with a scorch mark on the cover because someone put it down on a hot electric eye. It is described as being "old, old." It was submitted to the cookbook by Mrs. Clary Holt of Burlington, NC —Nora
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Ingredients
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2 tablespoons
sugar
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4 tablespoons
shortening
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1
packet dry yeast
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Warm water
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2 cups
buttermilk
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4-6 cups
flour
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1 teaspoon
soda
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1 teaspoon
baking powder
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1 teaspoon
salt
Directions
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Cream sugar and shortening.
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Dissolve the yeast in an equal amount of warm water, in a one cup measure. Add buttermilk to fill the cup. Set aside.
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Sift four cups of flour with the rest of the dry ingredients.
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Alternate adding flour, buttermilk and yeast mixture, and the second cup of buttermilk and shortening.
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Work in enough flour to make a soft dough.
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Put dough in a bowl and place in refrigerator. The longer the dough is kept there, the better, and the unusual feature of it is that it will rise quickly (in about 1 hour) once it has been thoroughly chilled.
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My note: give the dough at least 24 hours in the refrigerator. It will develop a delightful tang. It can be shaped in any way you like, and makes wonderful cinnamon rolls.
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Bake at 400 degrees (in a preheated oven) for 15-20 minutes.
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