Great Dinner Rolls

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 4 1/2-5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 (1 tablespoon) package active dry yeast
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine or 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl stir together 2 cups of the flour and the yeast.
• 2 in a small saucepan heat and stir milk, sugar, butter, and salt just until warm (120 degrees) and butter almost melts; add to flour mixture along with eggs.
• 3 beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 sec, scraping sides of bowl constantly.
• 4 beat on high speed 3 minute. using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.
• 5 turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
• 6 knead in enough remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (6 to 8 minutes total).
• 7 shape dough into a ball.
• 8 place in a greased bowl, turn once.
• 9 cover, let rise in a warm place until double 1 hour.
• 10 punch dough down and turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
• 11 divide dough in half.
• 12 cover, let rest for 10 minutes. meanwhile, depending on what shape of roll you want to make, lightly grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan, baking sheets.
• 13 shape the dough into 24 balls or desired rolls and place in prepared baking pan sheets.
• 14 cover and let rise in a warm place until nearly double in size about 30 minutes.
• 15 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 16 bake for 15 min or until golden.
• 17 immediately remove rolls from pans.
• 18 cool on wire racks.