Welcome to easy step-by-step old-fashioned bread-making Right on your counter-top! No fancy bread machines required! (And if you have a machine, just put that thing away!) Just lock and load the dough on a lightly floured counter top and pull out a tiny bit of muscle power and you’re off. Don’t forget to haul your friends or your kids to the kitchen to watch or help. And kick up the music ’cause it’s cool and fun to make your own lovely homemade scratch bread or rolls just like great-grandma used to do.

Here’s how to make lovely homemade yeast rolls…

Plop the ingredients into a large bowl.

Tip: A yeast packet is about 2-1/2 teaspoons of yeast. You can use rapid rise or bread machine yeast or 1 refrigerated cake or just about any other type of yeast for this recipe.

Double tip: Bread flour or all-purpose flour will do the trick and unsalted butter is best but not required.

Triple tip: In the photos, t=teaspoon, T=Tablespoon.

Stir the bread batter it with a wooden spoon…

Stir it until it forms a nice ball…

Dust a little flour on the counter-top and knuckle into the dough, flapping it over and pushing with the heel of your hand. Set the timer and turn on your favorite music…

After 10 minutes of bread kneading magic (aka bread meditation time), your dough will look like this…

Let’s make nice dinner rolls with it using a 4″ circle cutter (even an upside down glass or wide-mouth jar will do).

Roll the circle lightly…

Roll it on the counter-top (see the stages of flat to curled to rolled on the right sidee of the tray in the photo below) and shape it like this…

Rest the rolled dough on a cookie sheet (or other pan) that is lightly sprayed with cooking spray or rubbed with butter. Let them hang in a warm place (like the oven with the light on) for one hour.

Check on your little dough babies, maybe spray them with a little water and let them continue to rise for another hour…

When the second hour has elapsed, they will look something like this…

Bake them in a hot 350 oven on a buttered cookie sheet pan for about 20 minutes until golden brown…

They will look like this (and they will smell heavenly!)…

Different shapes are good ’cause that means they’re homemade…

Brush them with a little melted butter…

Okay, yum!

Your little baby bread rolls are going to go fast at the table, I can assure you!

When the butter soaks into the rolls, they look like this, all decked out in a cut handkerchief-lined basket for your holiday dinner table…

Slice them open and find soft, white country style homemade bread rolls for supper.

Spread them with a little butter (or not) and you’ve got yourself some history in the making…

Thank you for joining me on this little photo adventure through bread baking land. 😀

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Here’s some first time bread bakers learning the ropes…

It’s a bread making party!

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