Thursday, November 13, 2008

Ashley's Rolls



These rolls are absolutely wonderful. Recipe and pictures found here Ingredients: 2 Cups warm water 2/3 Cup nonfat dry milk 2 Tb. dry yeast (I use quickrise) 1/3 Cup sugar 2 tsp. salt 1/3 Cup shortening (I use butter) at room temp 1 egg 5-6 Cups flour Directions: 1. Pray (I added this...). 2. Combine the water and the milk powder and stir so the milk dissolves. Mix in the yeast, sugar, salt, shortening, egg, and 2 cups of the flour. Then keep adding flour and mixing it in until the dough is not overly sticky. You probably won't use all of the flour. (I only used 5 cups of flour, and used the other cup when I rolled the dough out). Just go with it until the dough is soft and seems like you could handle it without too much stickiness. You don't want to add too much flour. 3. Next, spray a separate bowl with Pam. Transfer the dough into that bowl and flip it a couple times so it is all covered in Pam (this keeps it from drying out). Cover it with plastic wrap or a towel and let it rise until it is double in size (about 45 minutes). 4. Now find something you can roll the dough out on and sprinkle it with flour. I use a pastry mat. Roll out the dough into a big rectangle. 5. Then use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into little rectangles, roughly 2 inches by 5 inches, but it really just depends how big you want your rolls and how your big rectangle turned out. 6. Now, take the little rectangles and flip them around themselves so they ends up looking like snail shells. Like them up on greased cookie sheets about an inch apart. 7. Cover them with the plastic or towel again, and let them rise again until they have doubled in size (about another 45 minutes). Bake at 375 for 15-18 minutes until sufficiently browned.

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