The Eight Year Roll

2 Cups warm water
2/3 Cup nonfat dry milk
2 Tb. dry yeast
1/3 Cup sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/3 Cup shortening or butter at room temp
1 egg
5-6 Cups flour

Combine the water and the milk powder and stir so the milk dissolves. Mix in the yeast, sugar, salt, shortening, egg, and 2 cups of the flour. Then keep adding flour and mixing it in until the dough is not overly sticky.

Spray a separate bowl with Pam. Transfer the dough into that bowl and flip it a couple times so it is all covered in Pam. Cover it with plastic wrap or a towel and let it rise until it is double in size (about 45 minutes).

 Roll out the dough into a big rectangle.

Then use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into little rectangles, roughly 2 inches by 5 inches, but it really just depends how big you want your rolls and how your big rectangle turned out.


Now, take the little rectangles and flip them around themselves so they ends up looking like snail shells. Line them up on greased cookie sheets about an inch apart.

Cover them with the plastic or towel again, and let them rise again until they have doubled in size (about another 45 minutes). Bake at 375 for 15-18 minutes until sufficiently browned.

*Recipe from Ashley C.