Classic White Bread and Cinnamon Rolls

icancervive10
icancervive10 @cook_3379905

Water should be 90-100 degrees Fahrenheit, any hotter will kill the yeast

Classic White Bread and Cinnamon Rolls

Water should be 90-100 degrees Fahrenheit, any hotter will kill the yeast

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Ingredients

2 loaves
  1. 1 cupwater (see note)
  2. 1 packetdry yeast
  3. 1 cupmilk
  4. 2 Tbsbutter
  5. 1 tspsalt
  6. 2 Tbshoney
  7. 5 1/2 cupsAP flour

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Mix water and yeast in a small bowl and set aside

  2. 2

    In small sauce pan add milk, butter, salt, honey

  3. 3

    On medium heat, melt butter and honey into milk and stir until salt is dissolved. Do not heat over 100 degrees

  4. 4

    Measure flour into large mixing bowl

  5. 5

    Add milk mixture to flour and stir a few times

  6. 6

    Add yeast to flour mixture and blend thoroughly

  7. 7

    Cover dough with a piece of plastic wrap and place bowl in a warm area of kitchen for 1 hour

  8. 8

    Uncover and knead dough (should be about double in size)

  9. 9

    Cover dough again and set aside for 30 minutes

  10. 10

    Uncover dough and divide in half

  11. 11

    Shape each half into loaves and place in greased loaf pans

  12. 12

    Cover dough again and preheat oven to 400

  13. 13

    When oven is preheated, uncover pans and place in oven for about 30 minutes or until golden brown and crusty on top

  14. 14

    Cool in pans on wire racks until bread is quite cool and remove from pans. Finish cooling on wrack

  15. 15

    Store in air right containers.
    This bread can be frozen

  16. 16

    To make cinnamon rolls, omit the step of shaping into loaves and instead roll dough into a large rectangle.

  17. 17

    Spread 4 Tbs soft butter onto dough and cover with a mixture of 1/2 cup dark brown sugar + 2 Tbs cinnamon

  18. 18

    Roll up dough and cut into 1/2” thick pieces

  19. 19

    Place in greased 9x13 pan leaving a little space between rolls

  20. 20

    Cover with a clean tea towel and allow to rise in the pan while oven preheats 375

  21. 21

    Bake 25-30 minutes or until tops are golden and edges are crusty

  22. 22

    Drizzle with real maple syrup and allow to cool in pan on wire wracks

  23. 23

    For the recipe photographed, I added 1 cup chopped pecans into the cinnamon sugar mixture

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Started cooking/baking with Gram just as soon as I was old enough to stand in a chair, with her apron tied around my chest. Made my first solo Thanksgiving meal at age 8. Putting a new flair on classic nothern New England style cooking.
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Comments (2)

cassie.mcclainbryant
cassie.mcclainbryant @cat_2003
Now am I supposed to grease the bowl the dough is rising in or not

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