Grandma's Cinnamon Buns
1/4 lb butter
4 heaping cups flour
1 cup milk
1 tsp salt
3 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 pkg yeast
1/2 cup warm water
brown sugar, lots
raisins, lots more
butter, melted
Day Before
Melt butter, add milk, sift flour, add salt, eggs, yeast (which has
been placed in some warm water), butter, and milk, sugar, etc. Mix
to proper consistency (which means you add flour until you can just
about handle the dough - it should be pretty sticky) and set away,
warmly covered, to raise.
Next AM
Flour a mixing surface - take part of dough at a time and knead
again (slightly) - roll out to about 1/4 inch thickness. Cover with
plenty of melted butter, cinnamon and sugar mixture, and
raisins. (Also nuts if desired but not necessary). Roll - cut into
2 inch sections - Cover bottom of baking pan with plenty of brown
sugar and butter. Stand sections of this - on end -- close together
until pan is filled. Stand away to raise until dough reaches top of
pan. Pan should be 3 or 4 inches high. Bake for nearly one hour in
slow oven. (Heat oven first until very hot - then turn down to slow oven.)