Dinner Rolls

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Found this awesome recipe on How Does She? I've brought them to a few family gatherings and they are always a hit.

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Delicious Dinner Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups of milk
• 3/4 cup + 1 Tablespoon Sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 Tablespoon salt
• 2 Tablespoons yeast
• 2 cups of warm water
• about 9-10 cups of all purpose flour
• at least 1 cup of butter

Instructions

1. Scald 1 1/2 cups of milk, 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup of butter, in a microwave safe bowl, for about 2 minutes. Cutting the butter into pieces helps it melt faster. There will probably be some little cubes of butter still floating in the hot mixture, they will melt.
2. add yeast to this hot mixture, but it will be too hot to just dump the yeast straight in (it would kill it!). To cool it down stir in 1-2 cups of flour, then add 1 egg and 1 Tablespoon of salt, and leave it to cool for a couple of minutes. Meanwhile, in a measuring cup dissolve 2 Tablespoons of yeast in 2 cups of warm water and 1 Tablespoon of sugar. Let it sit for a couple of minutes until it is bubbly.
3. Make sure your milk mixture is just warm, not boiling and add the yeast mixture!
4. Using a fork or wooden spoon, gradually stir in 9-10 cups of flour (counting the flour you have already added to cool it earlier). I would recommend only adding 2 cups at time and stirring in between. These rolls turn out so much better when they are mixed by hand.
5. At the end the dough will be dense and sticky, and may be hard to stir, you can use your hands to incorporate the rest of the flour if needed. Be sure not to add too much flour. Then smooth the dough out and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Leave it in a warm place and let it rise.
6. When your dough is close to raising completely, butter 2 cookie sheets and set them aside.
7. Let the dough raise until it has doubled in size.
8. Cover your working space with flour to prevent the dough from sticking. Dump your dough out and divide it into 4 balls. Eyeball the sizes, then lift them up and feel the weight of each ball. Try to make them even, but they don’t have to be perfect.
9. Using one ball of dough at a time: roll the dough into a circle on a floured counter. Once it is rolled out spread the top with butter from edge to edge. You will use about 2 Tablespoons per circle of dough.
10. Cut the dough into quarters using a pizza cutter.
11. Then cut each quarter into 3 pieces. You should end up with 12 triangles from each circle of dough.
12. Roll the dough starting with the wide end of the triangle
13. Tuck the tail of the triangle under the roll and place it on the buttered cookie sheet. You will make 3 rows, with 8 rolls per row. This will give you 24 rolls per pan. Two balls of dough will fill 1 pan. You will get a total of 48 rolls!
14. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. Place the pans of rolls in a warm place (on top of the oven if possible) to let them rise. Once they are touching and full in size, cook (one pan at a time) in the oven ’till they are golden brown. About 10 – 15 minutes, It may take longer depending on how hot your oven cooks. Keep a close eye on your first pan to get the right time for the second.
15. While they are still hot and fresh out of the oven run a stick of butter over the tops of the rolls for a delicious buttery glaze.

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Everyday Oat Bread

I have been making bread now instead of buying it at the store. It is so yummy and cheaper and worth the extra work.This is my new favorite. It is so good.

I found this recipe in a book I borrowed from the library. It was a very random book for a recipe but it sounded good. I don't remember what book it was. I have been meaning to try this bread out for a few months now.

Everyday Oat Bread

2 cups warm water
4 1/2 tsp yeast (2 pkgs)
4 Tbs honey
2 Tbs brown sugar
5 cups flour
1 cup rolled oats
2 tsp salt
4 Tbs butter, softened

Mix water, yeast, honey, and brown sugar until frothy; set aside for 10 minutes. (I get my water as hot as it will come out of the tap, and then I add my honey to the hot water. It makes the honey come off of the measurer a little better)
In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt, oats, and butter.
Add the yeast mixture and mix well.
Knead for about 10 minutes, adding up to 1 cup of flour to prevent sticking.
Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl, cover w/damp cloth. Let rise 1 hour. Punch down dough and let rise another 30 minutes.
Shape into 2 loaves, put in greased pans. Sprinkle with oats and let rise another 30 minutes. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

Notes:
It is winter and our place is always cold, so I let my dough rise in the oven. I turn on my oven to warm for about 3-5 minutes and then turn it off. I put a small bowl of water on the bottom rack and then my dough on the rack right above that.

I also like my bread nice and crusty so I butter my bread pans.

This is by far my favorite bread. I still want to do a little tweaking. Next time I will be grinding down some oats and using oat flour in it as well.

Easy Breadsticks

Easy Bread Sticks

1 Tbs yeast
2 Tbs sugar
1 1/2 cup warm water
1/2 tsp salt
3 -3 1/2 cups flour

Combine the yeast, sugar and water and let stand until bubbly, about 5 minutes. Mix in the salt and flour. Mix together, then knead for about 5-7 minutes. Cover with a damp towel and let stand for 10 minutes. Grease a 9x15 cookie sheet. Press dough into pan and cut into sticks. Melt 1/2 cup butter and pour over dough. Sprinkle with desired topping. Let stand 10-20 minutes. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 20 minutes.

Note: You can use Parmesan cheese and garlic salt for garlic bread sticks, Salad Supreme also works as a good topping. You can leave them plain. Or my favorite is to make it into a breakfast by sprinkling on a brown sugar and cinnamon mixture and once they have cooled frost them to make cinna-sticks.