When cycle is finished, turn dough out on floured surface.  Knead slightly, just enough to punch down dough.  Choose now what you want to make with your dough.  If making dinner rolls or hamburger buns, shape small sections of dough into round shapes.  This will make about 15 rolls depending on how large or small you make them.  Place rolls on cookie sheet, spray tops with oil spray.  Let rise 1 hr.  Bake at 400 for 12 min. Remove from oven.   Brush tops generously with melted butter.  Enjoy!!

3 cups bread flour

1 cup warm water

2 Tbsp sugar

1 Tbsp honey

1 Tbsp olive oil

2 Tsp salt

1 Tbsp yeast

Mix flour and salt.  Put yeast and half the flour in the mixer.  Mix the sugar and honey into the hot water until dissolved.  Pour mixture into bowl and use dough hook for about 2 minutes.  Stop mixer. Add olive oil and the rest of the flour.  Knead for 5 minutes stop mixer for 5 minutes then start mixer and knead again for 5 minutes.  Turn out on a lightly floured surface and shape into a ball.  Place in the refrigerator in a lightly sealed container coated with olive oil for overnight up to three days.

I did not put mine in the fridge and it turned out great.  I rolled out 16 breadsticks and 1 personal pan pizza from this recipe.  I let them rise for about 30 min.   Bake at 400 degrees for 12 min.  I then removed the breadsticks and turned the oven up to 450 degrees for an additional 5 min for the pizza.  On the breadsticks, I spread garlic butter while they were hot then sprinkled parmesan cheese mixed with a little kosher salt on top. 

Note:  This recipe was adapted from a recipe I found on line at pizzamaking.com

A picture of the field.  I was hoping it would show how the sun was glistening off the snow.  It was absolutely beautiful.

Our road after the tractor had made a path.

Going up the hill beside the hay barn.  Yes, that brown spot proves there is still dirt under all this snow.

Guess what?  We’re supposed to get more snow tomorrow.  Not much though-about 3″.  After all this, we probably won’t even notice 3 more inches.  Anyway, we have company coming over today.  My brother-in-law and his wife are coming.  I made homemade vegetable beef soup(cooked on the wood stove, of course)and I’m making  rolls as I type this.  I use my bread machine to mix and knead the dough.  I love this machine.  It is a Zojirushi.    

I bought it used several years ago and consider it a very valuable helper.  I put 1 cup lukewarm water into the machine, 1/4 cup butter-cut into chunks, 1egg beaten, 3 1/4 cups bread flour, 4 tbsp sugar, 3 tbsp powdered milk, 1tsp salt, 1 1/2 tsp yeast.  Set the machine to dough cycle and walk away.  It takes the machine l hr 50 min. to run through this cycle.  Then I take the dough out, punch it down and form the rolls.  I get about 15 rolls from 1 batch.  Then I spray them with olive oil and let them rise for about 1 hr.  Bake 12 min. at 425 degrees.  When I take them out of the oven, I brush them with melted butter(being generous with the butter).  Half of these never make it to the table.  They get eaten as soon as the butter is spread on them.  One thing I do a little different from this recipe is I put 1 1/4 cup fresh ground wheat flour and 2 cups bread flour instead of using all bread flour.  My family doesn’t care a lot for whole wheat so I mix it.  I guess I better go check on my rolls and get ready for company.  God Bless.