The Perfect Rolls From Scratch

I’ve been meaning to get an updated post about this recipe. It’s my mother-in-law’s and she was the roll queen. Luckily, my husband loves to bake bread (mostly because he loves to eat bread) and he paid attention when she was still alive to learn how to make these rolls.

I mean, he made these this week. Aren’t they beautiful?

So if you feel like making the perfect rolls from scratch, here’s the recipe that you’ve been waiting for. 

Baking bread takes way more patience than I have time for, so I don’t even attempt it, but I always have people asking for the recipe after they try my husband’s rolls, so I thought I’d share it with all of you!  

And, I’ve even known some families to give up their roll recipe they’ve been using for years for this one. They even make amazing cinnamon rolls too!

Ingredients for the perfect rolls from scratch

1/2 cup luke warm water

2 T. yeast

2 T. sugar

1 large can evaporated milk

1 can warm water

1/2 cup melted butter

1/2 cup sugar 

4 eggs

1 Tablespoon salt

10 Cups flour

Directions for the perfect rolls from scratch

First, combine yeast mixture in cluding the 1/2 cup luke warm water, yeast, sugar and set aside to bubble for 5-10 minutes. 

Next combine the following: evaporated milk, warm water, melted butter, sugar, eggs, and salt. Mix well and then add the yeast mixture. 

Next add in 10 cups of flour slowly while mixing. Continue to mix for 10 minutes. 

Set rolls aside to raise, covered, until they have doubled in size and shape. 

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. 

Things that I saw him do that might help….he made the dough the night before, and raised it in the fridge overnight with a lid. When he rolled it out the next day, he rolled it into a circle, and coated it with melted better, then cut it up like slices of pizza, rolling it from the edge to make the crescent roll shape. Here’s a picture of my cute husband from 2008 making these very rolls.

Good luck! (It kind of looks like he’s saying, “You’ll never be able to achieve this perfection” but I promise he isn’t smug. He just  hates taking pictures.)

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The Perfect Rolls From Scratch

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So if you feel like making the perfect rolls from scratch, here's the recipe that you've been waiting for.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup luke warm water
• 2 T. yeast
• 2 T. sugar
• 1 large can evaporated milk
• 1 can warm water
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 Tablespoon salt
• 10 Cups flour

Instructions

First, combine yeast mixture in cluding the 1/2 cup luke warm water, yeast, sugar and set aside to bubble for 5-10 minutes.

Next combine the following: evaporated milk, warm water, melted butter, sugar, eggs, and salt. Mix well and then add the yeast mixture.

Next add in 10 cups of flour slowly while mixing. Continue to mix for 10 minutes.

Set rolls aside to raise, covered, until they have doubled in size and shape.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Notes

For best results, make the dough the night before, and raise it in the fridge overnight with a lid.

To roll them out in a crescent shape, roll it into a circle, and coat dough with melted better, then cut it up like slices of pizza, rolling it from the edge to make the crescent roll shape.

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