Yummy Rolls

These rolls are so delicious! They just melt in your mouth and I want to eat them all and skip the rest of the meal!

The recipe looks long and complicated but it turns out to be pretty easy actually! (Especially if you have a mixer that can handle bread dough.)

1. Boil 2 cups water and at 1 cup butter or margarine and 1/2 cup brown sugar. Allow to cool a little.

2. While water/butter mixture cools, soften 2 Tbs yeast in 1/3 cup warm water and 1 Tbs sugar. (It grows a lot, so put it in a two cup measuring cup. I put it in a one cup and it overflowed a little.)

3. Add softened yeast and 2 eggs to the warm water/butter/sugar and mix well.

4. Add 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, and 6 cups flour

5. Beat all ingredients together until the dough does not stick to the sides of the bowl. You may need to gradually add small amounts of flour. (The dough seems to stay sticky forever, so don't add too much extra flour.)

6. Cover dough and let it rise for 2 hours. Roll out and put on greased cookie sheets. Let rise another 30 minutes. (Don't roll it out too thin...probably a quarter inch is good? We just made it once and it was too thin. You can experiment with it.)

7. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes. Yield: 4 dozen rolls (Recipe can be cut in half.)

Ideas for Rolls:

~Roll out dough on floured surface; use a round cookie cutter to cut dough. Brush with melted butter and fold in half.

~Roll dough in a circle. Brush with melted butter. Use a sharp knife or pizza cutter to cut dough into equal triangles. Roll up dough starting from wide end and put small point down on cookie sheet to bake. (That makes it like a crescent.)

~Roll dough into balls the size of a walnut. Put three balls together in a muffin cup. Brush with melted butter.

~Sprinkle rolls with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, mix minced garlic or onion with butter.

Another idea, which I tried tonight, is to make Chicken Pillows. I mixed two cans of chicken with one can of cream of chicken soup. I made the roll dough like normal, rolled it out to a quarter inch, and then cut big squares. I put some of the chicken mix on the dough and closed the dough around the chicken mix. (The picture is what's left after making 9 Chicken Pillows. That's enough dough for two more at the size I'm making them.)


They turned out pretty big. I will probably make them a little smaller next time. Just one is like an entire meal.


I made a pot of sauce using a can of cream of chicken soup and half a can of milk. That's good to pour over the Chicken Pillow. I'm glad this turned out so good. It was just an experiment. I didn't mean for it to make so much though...I'm going to stick the left overs in the freezer. This recipe amount made 11 big chicken pillows. If you don't have a big family you would probably want to cut the rolls recipe in half and just use one can of chicken for the filling.


Give it a try! I'm sure you'll like it!