Logan's Roadhouse Buttery Dinner Rolls

Total Time: 38 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 18 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 (1/4 ounce) packages active dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 cup nonfat dry milk powder
• 1 1/4 cups water (105-115 degrees)
• 1 large egg, slightly beaten
• 8 tablespoons butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons butter flavor shortening

Recipe

• 1 place 2 cups flour in a large mixing bowl.
• 2 add yeast, salt, sugar and dry milk.
• 3 set aside.
• 4 in a mixing bowl, combine water and egg and stir to blend.
• 5 make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
• 6 pour water mixture into well.
• 7 mix by hand, beating 150 strokes and frequently scraping bottom and sides of bowl.
• 8 add 1/2 the melted butter and beat to incorporate.
• 9 add remaining flour, about 1/3 cup at a time, beating to incorporate each addition.
• 10 cover bowl with plastic wrap.
• 11 set dough in a warm, draft-free place such as oven with pan of hottest tap water on rack below.
• 12 allow batter to rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
• 13 coat cups, bottoms and sides of a 12-cup muffin pan (or two small round pans) with butter-flavored vegetable shortening.
• 14 punch down batter (batter will be extremely soft and sticky).
• 15 drop by hand or spoonful into prepared muffin pan cups to make 12 rolls (if in pan, each roll touching the next).
• 16 brush dough with 1/2 remaining melted butter.
• 17 let rise, uncovered, in warm, draft-free place until almost doubled in bulk, about 30 minutes.
• 18 in preheated 400-degree oven, bake rolls on middle rack 16-18 minutes.
• 19 brush tops of cooked rolls with remaining melted butter.
• 20 serve immediately.