[mason-dixon]

Per your request, here's my go-to recipe for dinner rolls.

Acknowledgement: This is from the Regal breadmaker cookbook, "Old Fashioned".

With just two of us, I have adapted this to partially bake the rolls, freeze them, then bake for the last 10 minutes at dinnertime.

Mix in breadmaker (dough setting) or mix & kneed by hand to make 1 dozen :
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 Tablespoon butter or margarine, cut in small pieces
2 cups flour (as needed to get a soft-ish dough)
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon or 1/2 packet rapid rise yeast

To mix by hand:
Mix all ingredients, adding flour as needed to get a soft dough that can be handled.
Kneed until resilient, then coat with oil and let rise 30 minutes in a bowl.
Punch down and do a 2nd rise for 30 minutes.

To form and bake:
Pre heat oven to 375 degrees.
Form fist-sized rolls (2 oz weight) and place on baking pan. Let them sit 10-15 minutes to rise.
Bake for 20 minutes or when the tops are golden brown.

[Jamestown1630]

That looks like a very good recipe. I like the part where you use ‘2 cups as needed’ - it takes the sense of ‘mystery’ out of bread making. You simply can’t follow a recipe exactly, when it comes to bread - it’s all a matter of the kind of flour, the weather, etc. - it boils down to FEELING.

I will try your recipe. Thanks very much!

-JT