12 Hour Rolls

Orville and Zelda E. 60th wedding anniversary portrait —1989

Dean, Lynn, Daryl, Gordon (along with their wives) were able to be with their parents in Logan, Utah.

The other two sons—Alan and LeGrande—would have enjoyed being together also.

This recipe, from Grandmother's cookbook, is our favorite for special occasions and holiday meals.

TWELVE HOUR ROLLS (from INES, Zelda's sister)

1 yeast cake 1 T. sugar 1/2 c. margarine 1 c. milk, scalded and cooled

1/2 c. sugar 3 eggs 3/4 t. salt 3-1/2 to 4 c. flour

Crumble yeast cake and add sugar and mash until it becomes a liquid.  Add milk, butter, sugar, salt and egg.  Mix thoroughly and add flour to make a soft dough.  Allow to raise 5 or 6 hours.  Place on bread board and knead very little.  Dough is soft and should remain soft.  Divide dough in half.  Roll each half in a circle about 1/2 inch thick.  Spread with melted butter.  Cut pie fashion into 16 pieces.  Roll up each loosely from large end to small.  Place on buttered cookie sheet and allow to raise 5 or 6 hours.  Bake 375° for 20 minutes or until brown. [We like using Barbara's Parkerhouse method of shaping the rolls.]

The Grandparents were able to also have some of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren to help celebrate. Dad and Mom were in Alaska, but Kirsten, Cheryl/John, Scott/Dee/Jason/Erik represented that branch of the family tree.

Wish we could be together with family at the holidays. Enjoy it if you are together!

Cottage Cheese Wheat Bread

Grandmother E. with Kyle — September 1990

One of the great treats when visiting Cache Valley was eating Grandmother's Homemade Wheat Bread. It was always the very best—so light and delicious. I tried since 1982 to made bread; even with using her recipe, my loaves were more like bricks. She would give me pointers when I asked, but was perplexed that mine didn't turn out. Hers always did. I know that Barbara also makes a cottage cheese bread, so we'll have to post her recipe also. Mom's bread is also always so wonderful. Now, I cheat and make a version in my bread machine. I've posted both the 'real' recipe, and the cheater version below.

Daily Whole Wheat Bread (Grandmother's favorite)

2 c. water

1/2 c. instant potato flakes

1/2 c. sugar

1 T. salt 

1/4 c. oil

3 T. yeast

2 c. cottage cheese

1 t. soda

2 eggs, beaten

8 c. whole wheat flour, freshly ground, or white flour

Heat water to boiling.  Add instant potato.  Mix well.  Add sugar, salt and oil.  Cool to warm.  Add yeast.  Heat cottage cheese to lukewarm.  Add soda to cottage cheese.  Add eggs.  Mix all liquids.  Add flour.  Knead.  Let raise until double.  Let raise again.  Shape into loaves and let raise.  Bake at 400° for 10 minutes and then at 350° for 25 minutes.

Grandmother did not like to have us take pictures, but we were able to get the one above as she was holding Kyle. He turned  20 this week. Five days after he was born, his great-grandfather E. passed away. I remember being so sad that Kyle wouldn't get to know this great ancestor. We gathered in Cache Valley. The picture above shows Dee with cousin Susan, Kyle, Erik and an aunt? (someone help me with identifying here.)  — September 1990

Dee's Cheater Bread Machine Version of Cottage Cheese Wheat Bread

1 c. warm water

1/4 c. cottage cheese

3 T. oil

3 T. sugar or honey

2 T. dry milk

2 T. ground flax

2 t. salt

2 c. wheat flour

2 c. white flour

2 t. instant quick rise yeast

Put all in bread machine in order. Turn on regular white bread program. Can add cooked cereal or cooked whole wheat or sunflower seeds, etc. when machine "beeps" to add items. I like to take out with 20 min. remaining in program, so the crust is not so hard. Haven't tried adding potato flakes, but will after reviewing Grandmother's recipe. Experiment! Makes 2 lb. loaf.

Barbara, holding William's hand, with Cheryl, Doug, Aunt Tana, Michelle, Jan and Kyle — September 1990

Applesauce Cake (Cheryl's Wedding Cake)

I'm going back to the first recipe collection we did for Scott's Grandmother E. I am so grateful I was able to get to know this wonderful woman, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and cook. She was a gracious hostess each time we'd come to visit. I learned so many things from her, some I follow and some I just think about. For example, we loved her beautifully set table and delicious meals. I loved her blue 'Asian' china. We are not as good as she was about keeping containers off the table. When I put a milk jug, jar of jam, etc. on the table, I know Grandmother would have served it in a dish. This recipe was used for Cheryl's wedding cake. Thanks to Sarah A. (and Facebook), I was able to get a picture of the Cheryl & John. Next time, I'll scan one of Grandmother. This cake was make by Grandmother and served at their open house at her home in Logan. I was expecting Erik, and he just got married!

If anyone has favorite recipes—or memories of visiting the grandparents—they've used out of the cookbook we did way back in the 80s, let me know and I'll post them!

Applesauce Cake

1-1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. butter

2 eggs

1-1/2 c. applesauce

2 t. soda

1/4 c. warm water

2 c. flour

1 t. cinnamon

1/2 t. cloves

1/2 t. salt

1/2 c. raisins

1/2 c. nuts

Bake at 375° for 45 minutes.

by Zelda, mother-in-law to Barbara