Lion House Rolls

2 tablespoons Yeast
2 cups Warm Water
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Shortening
2 teaspoons Salt
2/3 cups Dry Milk Powder
1 Egg
5 1/2 cups Bread Flour
Softened Butter

1. In your mixer or large bowl, mix together your water and yeast. Let it proof for 5 minutes and then add in your salt, sugar, dry milk powder, shortening, egg, and 2 cups of the flour. Knead together until smooth.
2. Gradually add in the remaining flour until soft dough is formed.
3. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Place the ball of dough into a greased bowl and then flip the dough over. Cover the bowl and let it rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down and divide into thirds. (At this point I like to keep 1/3 of the dough out and freeze the other 2 into seperate bags for later use...I just don't need very many rolls for my small family)
4. Roll out 1/3 of the dough into a circle and spread your softened butter. Cut the dough into 12 equals pie shaped pieces like so:5. Starting with the wide part of each piece roll it up into a crescent.
6. Place them all on a greased baking sheet with the point of the roll on the bottom.
(If you chose not to freeze the rest of your dough then follow steps 4-6 with the remaining dough)
7. Cover your rolls and let them rise again until doubled in size.
8. Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes.

9. Rub some butter over the top of the rolls when they come out of the oven and then serve.

Yields: 3 dozen rolls

**You can even sprinkle some garlic powder onto the buttered dough before you roll them up. It makes a nice garlic roll for your pasta dishes.

Mini Loaves

Instead of making rolls for dinner, make some mini loaves of bread. How fun would that be for everyone to have their own little loaf of bread? Let me tell you...it's WAY fun. Now you don't want to eat it like a roll...you eat it like bread would be...in slices. So give everyone their own loaf and as they want some, they slice off a piece of bread and put on butter and jam. SO FUN!

(Just like my other bread recipes, you'll need a small and large scale to weigh your ingredients)

24 ounces Warm Water
1 ounce Yeast
40 ounces Bread Flour
1 ounce Salt
1 1/2 ounces Sugar
2 ounces Non Fat Milk Powder
1 1/2 ounces Shortening

1. Dissolve Yeast in water. Then add your Salt, Sugar, Non Fat Milk Powder, and Shortening. (When I make bread I personally like to use Kosher salt because it adds an extra kick. Try it out)
2. Slowly add in the Bread Flour. Knead until fully incorporated.
3. Spray a bowl with cooking spray and set your dough inside and then flip it. This gives it a nice coating on top so that it will keep your dough moist and not get a crusty coating while rising.
4. Cover your bowl and let the dough rise for an hour.
5. After it is finished rising, pull off a section of your dough and roll it out. Roll it up (like you would cinnamon rolls) and put it into your sprayed bread pan. Do this for every loaf. Make sure not to fill the pan to the top with your dough because it needs room to rise and then will rise more in the oven. If you have extra dough let over you can put it in a bag and throw it in the freezer for next time.
6. Once you filled every spot in your loaf pan, cover it up and let it rise for another 30 minutes or so.
7. Bake them at 350 for about 15 minutes or until done.
8. While still hot, rub the top of the loaves with butter. This will not only add a nice butter flavor, but also keep the top of the bread nice and soft and not be crusty.

**My mini loaf pan is a Wilton brand that I bought at Bed Bath & Beyond.

HOW FUN IS THAT!

Calzones

My friend Chelsea gave me this recipe and it sure is a keeper!


(I lost the picture I took on my camera of our calzones, so I just found a random picture of calzones on the internet. They dont look as good as the ones I made, thats for sure!)

1 pkg active dry yeast (1 package=2 1/4 tsp)
1 Cup warm water
1 Tablespoon oil
1 Teaspoon salt
1 Teaspoon sugar
2 1/2 Cups flour

1. Mix Yeast with water. Let it sit for a few minutes. Add the Sugar, Salt, and Oil. Slowly add the flour a little bit at a time. Knead well.
2. Spray a bowl with cooking spray and stick the dough inside the bowl and then turn the dough over. Cover with a towel and let it rise for an hour.
3. Take half the dough and roll it on a flat surface. Fill it with toppings of your choice on half of the rolled out dough. Flip the other side of your dough over the toppings and seal the edges by a fork.
4. Repeat step 3 with your other portion of dough.
5. Brush the tops of your calzones with butter. Cut a few slices into the top of your calzone to help your toppings heat in the oven.
6. Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes or until dough is cooked and the tops are golden.

You can fill your calzones with whatever you want. I like to put Pizza sauce, Pepperoni, Canadian Bacon, Sausage, and Mozerella cheese. You could make BBQ chicken ones, or whatever kind you want. The possibilities are endless!

YIELDS: 2 calzones

Monkey Bread (Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread)

12 oz Water
1/2 oz Yeast
1/2 oz Salt
3/4 oz Sugar
1 oz NonFat Milk Powder
3/4 oz Shortening
20 oz Bread Flour
Vanilla frosting
Cinnamon Sugar

1. Mix yeast in warm water. Add the salt, sugar, non fat millk powder, and the shortening. Mix all together. Slowly add in the flour and knead until dough is complete.
2. Let the dough rise until doubled in bulk (aprox 1 hour).
3. Spray your cooking dish (I like to use a bunt pan because it gives it a cool design)
4. Take a little piece of dough and roll it into a ball and roll it in a mix of cinnamon and sugar. Then put the ball of dough covered in cinnamon sugar in the pan. Continue doing this making small balls of dough and filling up the pan. You want to fill it about half way so you can give the bread room to rise.
5. Let the dough rise to be doubled in bulk (aprox 1 hour). If you are making the dough the night before and want to bake it in the morning, then skip this step and just stick it right in the fridge covered right after you finish step 4. Sticking it in the fridge will still let the dough rise, just a LOT slower...so when you wake up in the morning it will be fully risen and ready to bake.
6. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.
7. Frost it with vanilla frosting.

Cinnamon Rolls

Dough:

24 oz Water

1 oz Yeast

1 oz Salt

1 1/2 oz Sugar

2 oz Non Fat Milk Powder

40 oz Bread Flour

Toppings:

1 cup Butter

4 Tablespoons Cinnamon

Brown Sugar

Sugar

Vanilla Frosting

1.  Mix yeast in warm water.  Add the salt, sugar, non fat millk powder, and the shortening.  Mix all together.  Slowly add in the flour and knead until dough is complete.

2.  Let the dough rise until doubled in bulk (aprox 1 hour).

3.  Mix the butter and cinnamon together and beat it so it can get fluffy.

4.  Roll out your dough and spread out your cinnamon butter spread you just made onto your dough.

5.  Sprinkle sugar and brown sugar on top of the cinnamon butter spread.

6.  Roll up your dough into a log and cut it at about 1 inch incriments.

7.  Spray your cooking dish and place your rolls into it leaving some room for it to be able to rise.

8.  Let them rise for about an hour.

9.  Bake at 375 for about 15-20 minutes or until finished.

10.  Let them cool down just a little bit and spread your frosting on top.  ENJOY! :)

YIELDS: 3 dozen

Wheat Bread

24 ounces Water

1 ounce Yeast

1 ounce Salt

1 1/2 ounces Sugar

2 ounces Non Fat Milk Powder

1 1/2 ounces Shortening

1 pound Bread Flour

1 pound, 8 ounces Wheat Flour

1.  Dissolve yeast in water, and then add all the other ingredients except the flour.  Mix at ow speed.

2.  Sift and add the flour.  Let it all continue to mix until all ingredients are fully combined.

3.  Let the dough rise until doubled in bulk. (approx 1 hour)

4.  Roll out the dough and roll it into loafs.  Let it rise again.  (approx 1 hour)

5.  Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes.

IMPORTANT!  This recipe is all done by WEIGHT, not MEASUREMENTS so you do have to have a small scale for the small ingredients and a large scale for the flour.  This recipe makes 2 BIG loafs, so if you are like me then you might want to only do half a recipe so you only make 1 loaf!

Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bread

1 1/4 Cup Warm Water
2 tsp Sugar
2 1/4 tsp Yeast
2 Cups Bread Flour
1 3/4 Cups Wheat Flour
1 Tbs Coccoa
1 tsp Salt
2 Tbs Softened Butter
1/4 Cups Honey
2 Tbs Molasses
Cornmeal

1. Put warm water and yeast into a bowl and add the sugar. Let sit for a few minutes.
2. While the yeast mixture is sitting, put the flour, coccoa, and salt into another bowl and mix.
3. Mix butter into dry ingredients, add the honey and molasses and mix.
4. Slowly add the flour mixture to the yeast mixture until all mixed. Place in covered bowl and let rise until doubled in bulk (about an hour)
5. Separate the dough into 4-6 even portions. Roll each dough portion into logs that are about 6" long and 2" wide.
6. Moisten your hands then rub water onto each dough log and sprinkle some cornmeal onto them.
7. Sprinkle cornmeal onto your baking sheet or pizza stone and cover it loosely with plastic wrap. Let it rise for another hour or until doubled in size.
8. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until cooked fully

Buttered Rolls

I LOVE my mom's rolls. They are my favorite ever. You do need to have a food scale to make these. Here ya go...

20 Ounces Warm Water
1 Ounce Yeast
44 Ounces Bread Flour
1 Ounce Salt
4 Ounces Sugar
2 Ounces Non Fat Milk Powder
2 Ounces Shortening
2 Ounces Butter
4 Ounces Eggs

1. Combine water and Yeast and mix.
2. Add remaining ingredients leaving flour to the end. Mix until all ingredients are dissolved and add the flour.
3. Knead until well mixed into ball mixture.
4. Let rise until double in bulk (about and hour) and then make into rolls.
5. Let the rolls rise approx 1 hour.
6. Cook at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes.
7. Butter the top of the rolls when they come out of the oven.

***My mom taught me a trick, when you use kosher salt instead of regular salt it gives it more of a kick. Whenever I make bread I use kosher salt now, it works a lot better!

Pizza Dough

1 Tablespoon Yeast
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 Cup Warm Water
1 Cup Flour
1/2 Tablespoon Salt
2 Tablespoons Oil

1. Mix warm water, yeast, and salt.
2. Add sugar, oil, and flour. Mix well.
3. Knead until all flour is mixed. Let the dough rise in a covered bowl for appox 1 hour, or until doubled in bulk.
3. Pinch off a small amount and roll it out onto a floured surface into desired size.
4. Place onto sprayed pizza pan or stone. Add desired topping to make your delicious pizza.
5. Bake at 3500 for 20 to 25 minutes or until sides of dough are golden brown. Slice and serve!

Navajo Tacos

Step #1:
1 1/2 Cups Milk
1/2 Cups Sugar
2 Teaspoons Salt
1/2 Cups Butter


2 Tablespoons Yeast
1/2 Cups Warm Water
2 Eggs
6 to 7 Cups Flour

Scald together Step #1 and add half flour to cooled Step #1 mixture. Mix yeast with water, add eggs and mix. Add remaining flour. Knead until smooth. Let rise to double bulk (approx 2 hours). When ready pinch of a bit of dough and roll flat. Deep fry until golden brown in hot oil. Garnish with anything of your choice. Example: Chili, Beans, Lettuce, Cheese, Sour Cream, Tomatoes, Hot Sauce....

I love this recipe. It is so yummy and the bread is like a delicious sweet bread. You can even make this dough and fry it into scones and put honey butter and cinnamon on it. Mmmmm....

Banana Bread

2 Eggs
1 Cup Sugar
2 Cups Flour
3/4 Cups Margarine
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Salt
4 Bananas

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Smash bananas with a fork.
3. Mix all ingredients together
4. Pour mixture into 2 small greased bread pans
5. Cook for 30-45 minutes or until done.

This is my FAVORITE banana bread recipe. I got it from an old roommate Jena Hatch. It is very delicious. Enjoy! :)