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A poem I downloaded about Sheffield reminded me of Exa and the delicious rolls she used to bake at Spalding's. On a whim, I entered Exa and rolls in a search engine. I got this recipe. Don't now the provinence, but it is for yeast rolls. If they taste half as good as the original you're in for a treat.

EXA'S ROLLS
Here's a recipe for very light and somewhat sweet dinner rolls:

EXA'S ROLLS

1 pkg yeast
2 tsp. sugar
1/4 cup warm water

Mix the above together in a glass measuring cup and set aside a few minutes to 'grow'.

2 heaping Tbsp. Shortening
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup warm water
5 cups flour

Mix together in medium bowl and add the yeast mixture.
Mix well until dough forms.
Grease top of dough, cover and let rise 1 hour. Punch dough down and form into rolls or mini loaves. Let rise 45 min to 2 hours depending on lightness desired (although the dough will fall if it gets too high). Bake at 400o for 8 minutes, slightly longer for mini loa


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From: srdura@Hiwaay.net (Sue Roessel Dura) Subject: Re: Recipe for Homemade Dinner Rolls Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <32d50077.794490@parlor.hiwaay.net> references: <32d2ad49.4f1d@earthlink.net> <32d3ff85.8504850@news.airmail.net> organization: HiWAAY Information Services newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,rec.food.baking,alt.food,alt.creative-cook,alt.creative-cooking,alt.cooking-chat
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Over the years I have probably spent a thousand dollars on ingredients for rolls and homemade bread. Cannot get anything except hard little clumps.

Why???? I make wonderful cakes and I'm the cornbread queen. Cannot make biscuits, rolls, or bread. It's like I am handicapped. My mom always made yeast rolls. My grandmother made biscuits. There's DNA missing here somewhere.
Cute anecdote about Exa. The bookkeeper at Elizabeth's told me Exa paid them a certain amount every week whether she owed it or not. When she wanted something,it was usually aleady paid for! Does anyone remember the ceiling hangings at Spaldings in the 1959 era? Amazing and inappropriate things which were for sale in the store were hanging from the ceiling.
Seaweed posted:
Told my Mom about the recepie in hopes that she will cook up a batch. She asked if it had irish potatoes ! She thinks that potatoes were in the origional recipie. I remember her saying that way back then. Any feedback on that?

My mother had an Exa's recipe that called for "potato water" and "scalded milk".

We called her Exie, I remember when she would bring out a pan of
those rolls and the grown ups would stuff dollar bills in her apron
pocket as they took extra rolls. 
 
Across the street the Victory restaurant is where I'd go for a fresh
Donut from Big Mama, one of the cooks, no one paid any attention 
to a 7/8 year in those days.
 
I had heard things, so I decided to go up stairs to the second floor.
Well I found out what was going on and they could get me out fast
enough, if I had been a teen I could've gotten hurt. Most of the girls
just giggled.

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