POTATO ROLLS

recipe provided courtesy of Fleda W. Harris (Nana)
1 medium potato
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 yeast cake
3 1/2 cups flour
2 well beaten eggs
1/2 cup melted shortening
3 1/2 cups flour
Boil potato. Mash potato; put in cup and fill cup with water potato was cooked in; mix.
Scald and cool milk; mix with potato mixture, sugar, salt and yeast cake.
Add and mix well, eggs and 3 1/2 cups flour. Add and mix well, shortening and 3 1/2 cups flour.
Let stand 10 minutes. Knead about 5 minutes. Cover and let rise until doubled.
Make rolls and place on greased pan and let rise again.
Bake in 400° oven.
Hawthorne Family Cookbook