Butter Roll Recipe

This is a really good dinner roll recipe.  I made 100 of them on Tuesday to take to the shelter.  The guys were grabbing them and eating them as I walked through the door.

I am learning a lot doing cooking in these quantities and cooking for so many people at a time.  One thing I've learned is that you really have to love cooking to do this!

I also learned that there is no one on the face of the earth that does not instantly fall in love with Bev's chicken and dumplings.

I swear I could make them several times a week and people could never get enough of them.  It takes a lot of perseverance to pick all the meat off of 50 pounds of chicken thighs and legs.  The other thing I've learned is how to make excellent large quantities of food very inexpensively.  I found thighs on sale for 67 cents per pound.  I was able to provide a nice sized bowl of C&D and a good homemade butter roll for almost 200 people for a little over a dollar per serving.

Here is the roll recipe:

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup lukewarm water or milk
• 1 package rapid rise yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 egg or 2 egg yolks
• 4 tbsp melted and cooled butter
• 1 cup lukewarm water/milk
• 1-2 tsp salt
• additional melted butter for brushing

Instructions

1. In a bowl mix 1/4 cup lukewarm water or milk with 1 package rapid rise yeast and 1 tsp of sugar.
2. In your mixer bowl add 4 cups all purpose flour. Pour the yeast mixture over.
3. Add 1 egg and 4 tbsp of melted butter
4. In a measuring cup mix 1 cup of lukewarm milk with 1-2 tsp salt. Add it to the bowl.
5. Mix until you have a smooth dough.
6. Put the dough into a greased bowl, cover with plastic. Let it double in volume.
7. Grease a 11×7 deep dish. Divide the dough into 16 almost equal balls. Shape them into small baguettes and place them into the baking dish. Cover again with plastic and let them rise until they are touching.
8. Preheat the oven to  375F.
9. Brush the rolls with melted butter and place them in the oven.
10. Bake for 23-25 minutes until golden. Brush with some more butter as soon as you take them out of the oven.

I think I made about 400 dumplings.

I always remove the chicken from the pot to let it cool before I start to deconstruct it.  I had 6 of these trays.

Dumplings in the pot.

I roll them out and use a pizza cutter to score them.