Perfect Dinner Rolls (Tiffani)

2 Tbsp yeast
½ C warm water
2 C scalded milk
½ C sugar
½ C shortening
2 tsp salt
7 C bread flour (works best)
2 eggs
In a small bowl, add yeast and the warm water, set aside. In your mixer bowl, combine sugar, shortening, salt and scalded milk. When mixed well, add 3 cups of flour. Beat well. In a small bowl, beat 2 eggs, and then add them to the large bowl. Mix well again. Add yeast. Mix. Add 4 more cups of flour and knead about 3-5 minutes. If dough is too sticky, add a little more flour. Place dough in bowl and cover with a dish towel. Let it rise for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Separate the raised dough into three equal parts. Roll out the dough like a round pizza (about 16”). Take a pizza cutter or knife and cut the dough into triangular pizza wedges until you have 16 triangle shapes. Start at the large end and roll the dough into crescent roll shapes. Place the roll crescents on a cookie sheet. Repeat with the second ball of dough. Cover pans with a dish towel and let rise another 1 hour 15 minutes. Bake raised rolls at 350 for 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden brown. This whole process takes approximately 3 hours, but the end results are well worth it. This dough can be used for pizza, calzones or regular rolls.
Cinnamon Rolls: Divide dough into 2 balls – (makes one pan of cinnamon rolls and one pan of regular rolls)
Roll one of the balls into a large rectangular. Combine 1/3 cup white sugar, 1/3 cup brown sugar, and 4 tsp. cinnamon in a bowl. Mix well. Spread dough with thin layer of butter then sprinkle with sugar mixture. Roll up dough into log, then cut in 1” sections and place on pan. Let rolls rise for about an hour (till they double in size). Bake at 350 for about 15-20 minutes or until lightly golden brown. When slightly cooled top with glaze (2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 4 Tbsp milk).