Elva’s sweet dough recipe

from the kitchen of Elva Goering and the recipe box of Dorothea Goering

375  15 min

2 coups milk scalded – pour over
1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
2 teaspons salt
3 Tablespoons yeast dissolved in 1 cup warm water.
4 eggs beaten – add to cooled milk mixture.  Add dissolved year to milk mixture, add enough flour to make a thin consistency.  Beat well then add more flour to make soft dough
added in a different handwriting:  8 1/2 – 10 1/2  c. Flour

Elva writes on the back of the recipe card:  “This recipe I used at the Home for cinnamon rolls and poppy seed rolls. The recipe is large you may want to use only half of the recipe.  I do when using it at home, depends on how much I want to bake.  I like it as well as any I have ever tried  Hope you will enjoy using it. 

Added in Dorothea’s handwriting:  for dough of 2 c liquid, 5 1/2 c flour, 1 c evap milk, 2 c sugar, 2 c poppy seed makes about 5 rolls of poppy using:
3 c gr poppy seed
3? c sugar
1 /2 – 2 c thick cream

Cook cream & sugar together, cool

Editor: I used Love’n Bake Poppy Seed filling — for this recipe, I used 3 11 oz. cans.

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