Sweet Yeasty Rolls

This was my very first attempt at home made bread. I cheated a bit and used my breadmaker to mix it all up.

The cast:

1/2 cup warm water (at least 110 degrees to activate yeast)
1/2 cup warm milk
1 egg
1/2 cup white sugar
1 package of yeast
3 3/4 cups flour
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon salt

I dumped it all in willy nilly (not knowing there was an “order” I was supposed to follow – turned out fine), set it to knead.

1.5 hours later, I had a nice fluffy dough.

I removed it from the pan, and punched it down, on a floured surface. You can roll them in balls and plop them on a sheet, let them rise again (around 30ish minutes) and bake at 400 degrees 10ish minutes. I chose to try to make cute little rolls in a muffin tin.

I buttered the muffin tin, and rolled three small balls each cup. Looks like this:

Cute, right? I covered with a dishtowel and let them rise again – this should take 30-45 minutes. I was having issues with them rising, so I turned on a stove burner, then turned it off and set them up there, worked like a charm. Yeast needs heat to work.

Done rising:

I melted some butter and spread over the top and popped them in the oven.

Now, in the future, I’m going to turn the oven down some, maybe 375, because the sides were a little too brown for me.

But, I was so pleased how well they turned out.

I mean, I made BREAD. By MYSELF, from scratch. And, it was GOOD.

Bottom line: I’ll make these again, soon. Nana loved them, ate two herself!

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