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                                                 Refrigerator Rolls

Stella: This dough requires no kneading and can be made up to 4 days ahead! Just take out of the fridge, let rise and bake whenever you need. They are SO EASY.....

        Ingredients:


           1 cup warm water
           2 packages active dry yeast (or 4 ½ tsp if you don’t have packages)
           ½ cup butter, MELTED (1 stick)
           ½ cup sugar
           3 eggs
           1 tsp salt
           4 ½ cups flour
          Additional butter to melt on top

Combine water & yeast in a bowl. (Water should be hot... Think bathwater. Not too hot to touch, but not lukewarm!)

                            Let the water/yeast mixture stand until yeast is foamy, or just 5 minutes.

                              

While it is sitting, melt the butter and gather the other ingredients.

 

                                          After 5 min, stir in the melted butter, sugar, eggs and salt.

Stir, stir, stir!!!

                                            Then you will beat in the flour- one cup at a time.

Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or up to 4 days. It’s super easy to make this in the morning and pull them out in time for dinner. Just remember to allow one hour for them to rise. Into the fridge they go!

The dough will have puffed up quite a bit when you take it out. Puffed up. Yes, this is the technical term.

When you are ready to make the rolls, turn out the chilled dough onto a lightly floured board. Divide dough into 24 equal-size pieces. Or as Bess demonstrates here you can just grab the dough out of the bowl and roll it up if you are in a huge hurry like she is. Hah. Roll each piece into a smooth round ball; place balls in even rolls in the a greased 13 x 9 pan.

Cover & let balls rise until doubled in volume, about 1 hour. I did not get a photo of this as we were rushing off to Gma Mod’s for Easter dinner. By the way, this can make up to 2 dozen rolls (We only made about 18 here rolling them out larger.)

Preheat oven to 375... Bake until rolls are golden brown, 15-20 minutes. (These rolls are NOT golden brown, but good enough for the time being. Such a perfectionist.. even with food.) Brush warm rolls with melted butter.

They are FAB. FAB. FAB. Plus, People will think you are a marvelous baker if you make these for them... ;)

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