What would Thanksgiving be without homemade rolls? For me the rolls are my favorite part of a holiday dinner.
I loved them and my mother made great rolls while her children were growing up but at that point in my life I didn’t want to learn how to make them and so…..I didn’t.
A few years later I really regretted it because my mom’s health had deteriorated to the point that she couldn’t bake anymore and couldn’t show me how to bake yummy rolls. Now I had the desire and no one to show me that is until I met my friend Janette.
Janette is an older woman that took me under her wing and looked out for me for a few years when my children were little and I had all of the challenges that young motherhood brings.
One of the many things that Janette taught me was how to make her Parker House Roll recipe.
It is so much easier that I had imagined and I would love to share this recipe with any of you that may need a fabulous roll recipe that you can be confident will produce beautiful rolls.
I used to just save my recipes on handwritten cards – but have since realized that this type of keeping a recipe will probably over time be lost.
Instead I have decide to take my favorite recipes like this Holiday roll recipe and scrap them!
If I scrap them and put them in a recipe album it makes it easier to pass them on to my children or give the recipes to family and friends
I can add photos and scrap pages with the whole recipe, and put on a recipe like the Holiday Rolls. Another way is to take photos of each of the steps and scrap the information on how to make the recipe step by step too!
The nice part is since it is digital, I can make it once and give it to as many people as I like! I can email my digital scrapbooking recipes to everyone, or I can print out copies for family and friends too!
It is easy to make lasting memories and keep your recipes preserved when you digital scrap them!
One digital scrapbooking kit I like to use for Thanksgiving recipes is the Fall Foliage Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 because it comes with digital recipe cards, a digital pen, and fall embellishments like colorful leaves and fall colored digital papers. This is the kit I used to scrap the recipe pages on this blog.
If you would like my recipe to put into your own holiday recipe scrap book here it is!
Holiday Roll Recipe
Here is the recipe and the process for making the rolls that make my holiday dinner special.
Mix the following ingredients in a large bowl, I use the large Tupperware bowl
3 Cups of Milk
1 Cup of real butter (it is important that you use real butter)
Microwave 7-8 minutes or until butter melts
Add 1 more cup of milk to the hot mixture
1 Cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Salt
Mix well and Dump 6 Cups of flour in the liquid mixture. Make a well with a spoon in the flour and add
4 eggs and 3 Tablespoon Quick Rising Yeast so that they rest in the flour
Begin Mixing (you may use a regular hand mixer)
Continue to add flour up to 12 Cups until you have a nice consistency. When you have added about 9 cups of flour you might want to mix with a wooden spoon. When the dough is mixed well, let it sit and rise until double. This normally takes 1 ½ to 2 hour. Punch the dough down and raise another 45 minutes to 1 hour.
On a clean cutting board or counter top sprinkle a thin layer of flour. Divide the dough into three sections and roll the dough out one section at a time and cut the dough out in a circle shape. I use a large plastic cup or glass mug to cut my rolls out. While you are cutting the rolls out, set a large cookie sheet on the stove and melt 3 Tablespoon of real butter on a low heat. Then when you are finished cutting out the dough take each circle and set it in the melted butter and flip it over, fold it in half and flip it over again. Form the dough into a crescent shape and pinch the dough shut by pressing down with your fingers. Lay the crescent shapes so they are touching each other slightly on the sides, front, and back. I lay 4 rolls across and 7 rolls down. This recipe makes 5 dozen rolls. Leftover rolls freeze nicely to use with a future meal.
Let the dough rise about 1 hour and bake on 400 for 11-13 minutes.
Use this Recipe to make a variation – Orange Rolls:
I also enjoy Orange Rolls. To make this option, grate an orange peeling into a bowl and add a half cup of white sugar.
Make the same as you would the rolls but before folding the roll in half place a small teaspoon of the sugar mixture on the roll.
These are good as a treat or a dinner roll.
Use this Same Recipe for Even More kinds of Holiday Rolls!
One of the best things about this recipe is that there are so many optional treats that you can make with the dough.
My favorites are Brown Sugar and Butter cakes that I serve with whipped topping on Christmas morning and Orange Rolls that go great with any celebration dinner.
After the circles of dough have been cut out in the basic roll recipe, you can either mix the dough back together so that you can make more rolls or you can set the scraps of dough off to the side to make brown sugar cakes for breakfast or a treat.
Spray Cooking Spray in a pan and lay the sections of scraps of dough together like a puzzle. Make a thumbprint in the pieces and dot the scraps with a small piece of butter and a dab of Brown sugar. Let rise and bake on 400 for 11 – 13 minutes. Served hot with Whipped Cream on top.
These are an especially wonderful treat to share with your friends and neighbors on a cold winter evening.
You can even make this same recipe into cinnamon rolls, just by adding melted butter, cinnamon sugar, raisins and nuts when you first roll out the dough, but don’t cut into circles. Then roll the dough up, and cut into 1/2 inch slices. Put in each slice in a pan like the basic roll recipe and then let raise and bake.
May the warmth and yummy smells of home baked goods bring joy to and your families this holiday season.
Denise
Ps. after you have your recipes and photos, scrap a recipe book and then turn it into a digital album and email it to family and friends — see the training to do this below.
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