Not Quite 30 Minute Rolls

I finally convinced Eldest Sis to bake bread (sort of kinda).  OK.... Let's just say she finally decided she wanted to try and bake bread so that they could have bread with some dipping oil they have at home.   The fact remains ... Eldest Sis successfully baked some bread during the Martin Luther King holiday!  (One more convert.  Hurrah!)

This was the recipe she tried : http://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/30-minute-rolls/

We were on Skype today and I said I'd try it out as well.  Of course between the to-ing and fro-ing from the kitchen counter to the PC, things did not really turn out as I had intended.  I thought the original recipe had too much yeast and too much sugar.  So I decided to half the yeast and half the sugar amounts.  What I did not realise is that I had used a half cup extra water from what the recipe called for (no wonder the dough was so sticky!), so naturally I needed to add more flour.  

Anyway, I was halfway through kneading when I realised I had used too much water.  And while we are in the topic of using the wrong amounts,  the rolls were already out of the oven when I realised that I had used 1/4 c of oil instead of the recipe's 1/3 c.  (Is it my eyesight or my memory that is going?)

I ended up making 15 rolls instead of the recipe's 12.  In other words, I didn't really follow the recipe with the exception of using the right number of eggs (1) which was kind of hard to get wrong.  I shall call them tweaking the recipe (some quite unintentionally) 

The bread was nice and soft.  It is definitely a keeper.   This is essentially the pizza dough recipe we use with the addition of an egg.  

Ingredients

• 1 ½ C warm water
• 1 Tbsp active dry yeast
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 1½ tsp salt
• 4 ½  - 5 C  flour 
• melted butter (optional)

Instructions

1. Heat water in glass pyrex.  Sprinkle yeast over water.  Add in sugar.  Mix to combine and let sit until foamy (5 to 10 mins).
2. In a big bowl combine about 4 cups of flour and salt.  Make a well.
3. Pour in yeast mixture. Add egg and oil.
4. Mix together (use fork to combine if too sticky at the onset). 
5. Add flour as you knead to get dough into elastic ball (about 8 to 10 minutes).  
6. Heat oven to 400 degrees. (Can be your step 1 but starting the oven here will give dough extra time to rise)
7. Form dough into 12-15 balls and then place in a greased 9 x 13 pan and allow to rest for 10 minutes (until oven is right temperature). 
8. Bake for 10 - 15 minutes at 400 degrees or until golden brown.
9. Brush the rolls with melted butter when they come out of the oven.