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You Can’t Go Wrong With a Batch of Grandma’s Famous Homemade Rolls

There’s nothing better than homemade rolls!

We’re in the thick of soup season, and nothing pairs better with a bowl of soup than a warm, buttery roll. They turn a basic weeknight dinner into a special occasion.

Baker Lisa Dinsmore says you can – and should- roll up your sleeves and bake the buttery buns yourself! Her old-fashioned method is failproof and stands the test of time! The rolls are light, fluffy, and baked with a buttery golden top. This recipe will carry you through the holiday season.

 

Grandma’s Famous Rolls

From the kitchen of Lisa Dinsmore 

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/3 cup oil (veg or canola) 
  • 3 cups hot water 
  • ¾ cup sugar 
  • 1 tbsp salt 
  • 3 eggs 
  • 3 Tbsp yeast 
  • 9 (ish) cups flour 

*If using dry active yeast mix part of water and sugar with yeast to proof  

METHOD

  1. With whisk attachment on mixer, mix oil, water, sugar, salt, and eggs. 
  2. Add 2 cups flour then yeast mixture or instant yeast.  
  3. Switch to dough hook. Add more flour until dough pulls away from sides of bowl and not much dough is left on your hand when touched. 
  4. Cover and let raise once, until doubled, then dump into a greased bowl and cover to raise again, until doubled. After raising twice, dump onto floured counter. 
  5. Melt 1/3 cup butter. Pour 1/2 of the melted butter on pan. 
  6. Roll the dough to ½ inches. Cut with 3-4 inch circle cutter (cookie cutter, plastic cup, etc.)  
  7. Dip each side of dough piece in butter, fold in half and place on cookie sheet, close together so rolls are touching. Continue with remaining dough. 
  8. Cover and let raise until doubled. 
  9. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes. 
  10. Remove from oven and brush with butter. 

*** For Scones, let dough raise once, roll and cut squares with pizza cutter, or pinch pieces of dough, dip in flour and shape. Then fry in 350° oil. 


Find more recipes from Lisa on Instagram, @mamalisaskitchen, or at mamalisaskitchen.com.

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