This section is from the book "Best Recipes For Baking. A Book For The Home", by John William Schroers. Also available from Amazon: Best recipes for baking.
In making rolls if you will make them at the same time you are making bread you will find it very convenient. You can take a part of your bread sponge and work into any kind of roll, coffee cake or raised doughnuts. If you wish to make rolls and no bread, make sponge in same manner and treat same as for bread.
To make plain rolls take part of your bread dough, making it into rolls, put in pan, setting them a little apart so they will have room to rise, when risen take a little cloth and some melted lard and grease the tops, have the oven hot enough to bake them in twenty to thirty minutes.
Make same as for rolls, using same ingredients, but in making dough from the sponge use half graham flour. If you wish your graham rolls richer add more sugar and lard.
Make same as for rolls, using same ingredients, but in making dough use all whole wheat flour, if you wish these rolls richer use more sugar and lard.
 
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