SC - Bread things

[Decker, Terry D.]

Ahhh, now the question is what do you mean by cinnamon rolls?  If you are
after the ones similar to a glazed doughnut, this recipe won't cut it.  This
recipe will produce a bread-like roll.  If you shortened the dough enough
and under cooked the rolls, you might get something which resembles a Rainbo
or Dolly Madison cinnamon roll.

This is an enriched dessert dough, so it will be sticky.  You can tell it is
enriched because you use milk rather than water and you add eggs and sugar.

With 4 cups of flour (about 20 ounces), you need about 1 1/2 cups milk,
maybe a little less if you add butter or oil.

The yeast (1 package) should have been dissolved in about 2 Tablespoons of
water.  The milk should have been warmed, then allowed to cool to below 90
F.

Add the sugar and spices to the milk, mix well, then add the yeast mixture.
Slowly stir a couple cups of flour onto the milk.  Add 4 Tablespoons of
butter at room temperature (this will help shorten the dough and improve the
flavor.  I prefer butter to oil.)  Stir in.  The dough should look yellow.

Continue adding flour slowly, until the dough begins to ball.  Turn out on a
well floured surface and knead lightly.  The dough will be very sticky and
will need to be sprinkled with flour as you work it.  The more you work the
dough, the more bread-like it will become.  The bread will still be sticky
but it shouldn't cling to your hand.  The surface should just be starting to
smooth.  Place in an oiled bowl, cover, and let stand for about 2 hours.
Don't worry too much about a visible rise, as this is a heavily shortened
dough.

Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface.  Brush with melted butter.
Spread filling ( like a dust of cinnamon and nutmeg, followed by dark brown
sugar and fruit).  The less liquid the filling, the better.  Roll up.  Cut
rolls from the loaf and place in a greased baking tray.  I would probably
use grease baker's parchment to line the pan, but that is more of a
preference than a necessity.  Brush rolls with melted butter.  Bake at 350 F
for about 30 minutes or unil done.  Remove, cool on racks, and glaze with
confectioner's sugar and water icing.

I would say you used too much yeast and too much flour.  And I would
certainly put a thermometer in that oven.  I think your temperature was more
than you thought it was.

Bear


> I used two cinammon roll recipies and a hot cross buns recipe from SOAR to
> figure out how one makes a dough, and then worked from there trying my
> best to
> end up with cinammon rolls, no clue how I got bread from this.
> 
> What I Did -
> 1. prepped yeast
> 2. added milk
> 3. added 4 and a bit cups of all-purpose flour
> 4. added 3 tablespoons sugar
> 5. added 2 eggs
> 6. added 2 tablespoons cinammon
> 7. added 1 tablespoon ginger
> 8. waited 10 minutes
> 9. prepped more yeast
> 10. added to dough
> 11. added a bit more flour
> 12. floured hands
> 13. floured bowl again
> 14. floured hands again when trying to get sticky dough off of hands
> 15. added two handfuls of flour until consistency felt smooth
> 16. waited for rise
> 17. while waiting, warmed honey and mixed peanut butter with ginger,
> cinnamon,
> and black pepper for filling.
> 18. rolled out on pan, using wine bottle for lack of rolling pin (this was
> after
> trying to use roll of aluminum foil)[1]
> 19. spread filling
> 20. rolled up
> 21. For lack of other clean sharp knives cut with a big steak knife[2].
> 22. Put in oven at 300 for the length of time it takes to pack one box of
> books
> and one telephone call with mom.  I'm guessing roughly 15 minutes.  At
> some
> point during the phone call I got my flashlight and checked the oven[3].
> 23. Yummy sweet soft bread with nice floured outsides!
> Ummmmmmm.......
> 
> -M
> 
> [1] The grocery store didn't have any rolling pins for sale and I'm in the
> process of starting a brand new kitchen so didn't have one . . . the wine
> bottle
> worked pretty well.
> [2] I haven't had properly working water at my old residence for over
> three
> weeks, didn't have a whole lot of clean cutlery.
> [3] The lightbulb in the kitchen burned out the day before I planned to
> move.  I
> was not going to unpack and find a fresh lightbulb!
>