Basic Roll Dough

Basic Roll Dough

Dissolve 1½  T.  Yeast in ½ cup warm Water with 1 T. Sugar. (or ½ T. Stevia)

In a liquid measuring cup, heat 1¾ cups Milk and ¼ cups Butter in the microwave, on high for 5 min.  (I’ve used almond milk for a non dairy version and it worked fine) If you use powdered milk just make it with fairly warm water and don’t bother heating it cuz you don’t need to kill whatever heating milk kills because it’s already dead. J Add ¼ cup Sugar (or 2 T. Stevia) and 2 t. Salt and let it cool.

To the warm milk add yeast mixture and 2 cups Flour. (I use sprouted wheat flour) Add 2 Eggs and enough flour to make a soft dough. Cover and let raise for 1 hour.

Roll out as desired. Let rise 45 minutes. Bake at 400 deg. for 12-15 minutes.

Varieties

Parkerhouse: Roll out and cut into circles. Dip in butter, fold over, and place on a cookie sheet. Rub tops with remaining butter. Let rise and bake as directed above.

Cloverleaf: Break dough into small balls. Roll into nice round balls and place 3 in each section of a muffin tin. Brush with melted butter. (I like to dip the balls in butter too) (What! I like butter) Let raise and bake as directed above.

Cinnamon Rolls: roll out all the dough into a nice big rectangle about ¼ to ½ inch thick. Butter the whole rectangle with softened (not melted) butter. Sprinkle with generous amount of brown sugar, cinnamon, and raisins (ewww. Not raisins for me)

Roll out and cut with a piece of thread. Place on a baking sheet and let rise and bake as directed above. Frost however you love (glaze, cream cheese frosting etc)

Orange Rolls: Roll out as for Cinnamon rolls. Mix juice from 1 orange, ½ cup of butter, 1 t. vanilla and powdered sugar to make an almost runny type frosting. Spread over dough, roll up and cut. Place on baking sheet, let rise, bake as directed above. Frost with basic powdered sugar frosting but replace other liquid with orange juice. (I love these with lemon too in place of the orange)