Seventeen hour Cinnamon Buns

This recipe comes from my beloved Betty Crocker cookbook that was my Nana Jane's. They don't actually take seventeen hours. It just seems that long while you're waiting for dough to rise when you really want to be eating cinnamon buns. Totally worth the wait. Don't be silly. Just make 2 batches.

1/4 cup warm water
1 pkg. active dry yeast
3/4 cup luke warm milk* (I used rice milk)
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 egg
1/4 cup soft shortening (I used Earth Balance "butter")
3 1/2 to 3 3/4 cups flour

In a bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Measure flour by dip-level-pour method or sifting(if you are so anal retentively inclined.) Add milk, sugar, salt, egg, shortening and half flour to yeast. I say half because a Polack doesn't read directions well and had to fish out mostly half of the flour. Seriously, who lets me in the kitchen? Mix with a spoon until smooth. Also, may have considered using the wand blender here next time. Add enough remaining flour to "handle easily." I ended up adding all the flour and then a little more.

Round up in greased bowl, bringing greased side up. Cover with cloth. Let rise in warm place (85°) until double, about 1 1/2 hours. Or in my case an hour because I used the warm oven Paddy had just made bacon in. Punch down; let rise again until almost double, about 30 minutes.

Roll dough into oblong, 15x9" approx. Mix 2 tbsp. softened butter, 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon. (Okay, I used about 4 tbsp "butter", 1/2 cup sugar and 3 tsp cinnamon. No one ever complains about too much butter, sugar and cinnamon in their cinnamon buns, right?) Spread all over dough.

Roll up dough tightly at the wide side. Seal well by pinching edges of roll together. Even up roll by stretching slightly if necessary. Cut roll into 1" slices. Place in a greased 13x9" glass pan. Cover and let rise until double, 35 to 40 minutes. (See? Isn't the wait killing you right about now?) Heat oven to 375°. Bake for 20 minutes.

Mix a little bit of milk into a lot of powdered sugar to make the icing. Yeah, eyeball it. You can do it. Frost cinnamon buns while warm. EAT!