Freezer Dough (Joycelyn)

Place in Large Mixing Bowl in the order listed:
2 c. flour
2 T. dry Yeast
½ c. sugar
2/3 c. dry powdered milk
1½ t. salt

In a 2 cup measuring cup pour in ½ cup oil and 1 ½ cups of hottest tap water. Add all at once to the dry ingredients and beat until well blended and smooth.
Add 2 eggs and 1 more cup of flour – Mix Well.
Add 2 more cups of flour and mix well. You may need to add ½ to 1 cup more of flour at this point – add about ¼ cup at a time. You want a soft smooth dough but not overly sticky.

Cover with saran wrap and let rest for 20-30


Punch down the dough

Now you can:
cover the rolls with that same piece of saran wrap and place them in the refrigerator to bake within the next 24 hours
OR put them in the freezer to use in the next month
OR you can let them rise for a few minutes while the oven preheats and bake them.

Bake at 375 for 15-17 minutes.

If you put them in the refrigerator to bake later; when you take them out of refrigerator, remove the saran wrap, let them sit while the oven preheats, and then bake as directed above.

If they were in the freezer thaw and let rise (3 hours on the counter OR 8 hours in refrigerator) and then bake.

This is a basic freezer dough you can use it to make all sorts of bread dishes—
Cinnamon Rolls, Orange rolls, Cinnamon Pull-aparts—Monkey bread, Pizza, Hamburger buns, Sandwich rollups, Bread etc.

For Crescent rolls:

Punch the dough down and divide the dough into 3 even pieces. On a sprayed OR floured surface, roll each piece of dough into about a 10 inch circle (about ½ inch thick). Cut each circle into 8 pieces like cutting a pie. Then roll each piece starting at the widest edge to form a crescent roll. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Makes 24 rolls. (You can shape the dough in any way that you choose – crescent rolls are just my favorite shape.)

Bunny Bread (Gail)

Thaw 1 loaf Rhodes Bake and serve bread.
Divide in pieces and shape into body, arms, legs, head, ears etc, to make a bunny.
Bake and serve.
Place raisins for eyes and sliver almonds for teeth.
Isn't he cute!!

Egg Idea (Julie)

My idea, if you want to share it, is one I got from Homemaking years ago. Cinnamon rolls again. Arrange them to look like a sheep, cut out feet and ears to attack and a bitty tail. The egg ring is cool, too. Don't cut the cinnamon rolls all the way through, then twist them into a circle with the uncut portion inside the circle. Spread the rolls and place a colored, cooked egg in between each roll and bake it. Cute, but not all that practical.

Main Dish Idea (Julie)

An idea for bread dough, I roll the dough, as though for cinnamon rolls, and make a dinner meal using themed ingredients . Spread the dough with appropriate sauce, add meats and toppings.Pizza toppings. Ham and peas with cheese sauce. Hamburger, onions and peppers. Cream of whatever soup, chicken, mushrooms,etc... Whatever you like, then roll and cut. Add more sauce over rolls after baking, if desired.

Cinnamon Rolls (Christy)

Waiting for recipe

Garden Veggie Pizza Squares (Mary)

Prep Time:5 Min Cook Time:15 Min Ready In:1 Hr 30 Min



Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package refrigerated crescent rolls or pizza roll
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (1 ounce) package Ranch-style dressing mix
2 carrots, finely chopped
1/2 cup chopped red bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/2 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
1/2 cup chopped green onions

Directions:

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

2.Roll out crescent rolls onto a large non-stick baking sheet. Stretch and flatten to form a single rectangular shape on the baking sheet. Bake 11 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. Allow to cool.

3.Place cream cheese in a medium bowl. Mix cream cheese with 1/2 of the ranch dressing mix. Adjust the amount of dressing mix to taste. Spread the mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange carrots, red bell pepper, broccoli and green onions on top. Chill in the refrigerator approximately 1 hour. Cut into bite-size squares to serve.

Toasty English Muffins (Joycelyn)

1 pkg. yeast
1/4 cup warm water
3 cup flour
1 1/4 cup scalded milk
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 cup corn meal
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup margarine

Soften yeast in warm water. Add sugar, salt and margarine and let cool to lukewarm. Stir in 1 cup flour and add yeast and cornmeal mixing well. Beat 2 min. on medium speed with an electric mixer or beat 300 vigorous strokes with wooden spoon. Beat in remaining flour to make soft dough. Cover and let rise in warm place until double. (About 1 hour) The dough will be very soft dough almost too sticky to handle.
(I use my Kitchen Aid mixer to mix the dough)

Stir down and roll out to 1/2 inch thickness on floured board. Sprinkle with corn meal. Cut in 3-4 inch rounds, cover, and let rise for 30 minutes.

Heat slightly greased griddle to 300 degrees. (I prefer to use an electric fry pan so I can control the temperature. I also place the lid on fry pan to aid in cooking the muffins through to the middle easier.)

Place muffins on griddle cornmeal side down. Cook each muffin for 4-5 minutes and then turn over and cook for another 4-5 minutes. Cool.

Use a fork to separate the muffins as cutting with a knife destroys the texture of the muffins.

Frozen Refrigerator Rolls (Joycelyn)

This makes a big batch so freeze them like Rhodes Rolls and pull them out when you need them. You can make any shape roll you desire.

4 cups warm milk add 1 cube margarine
6 eggs in a mixing bowl beat with 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. salt add milk and margarine
Dissolve 2 tbs. yeast in 1/2 cup warm water and add to mixture
Add enough flour to make a soft dough.

Let dough double in size on counter then shape and cook OR let sit in the refrigerator over night then shape and cook the next day.ORForm into balls and place on greased cookie sheet and freeze. After frozen place in a freezer bag to store until ready to use.

There are a couple options to thaw. Place them on a greased pan that you want to bake them in then cover with plastic wrap sprayed with nonstick spray so the wrap doesn’t stick to the rolls. They can sit covered over night in the fridge. Bring out and let rise half hour to 1 hour or until doubled.

For Cinnamon Rolls:
You can also roll the dough into a rectangle spread with margarine brown sugar and cinnamon and roll it up, then cut into slices and flash freeze (or freeze them individually before putting them together in a bag to freeze in the freezer) on greased cookie sheets.

For Monkey Bread or Sticky Buns:






Break pieces of dough into 1 inch balls and flash freeze.





Place 72 one inch frozen dough balls in a bunt pan. Mix together the following:
1 small pkg pudding mix vanilla OR butterscotch flavor (not instant)
1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
1 cup brown sugar
4 Tablespoons cream

Pour caramel mixture over frozen dough. Let rise over night and bake in the morning or make in the morning and cook in the evening.

(Optional--mix 1 1/2 cup chopped nuts of your choice in with the 1 1/2 inch balls of dough before adding sauce)

Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven and invert onto a plate so warm caramel runs down sides. Enjoy!

Lots of Lovin' Cinnamon Rolls (Peggy)

Nothing says lovin' like warm cinnamon rolls from the oven! How about some luscious easy-as-pie heart-shaped cinnamon rolls for your sweetie this Valentines Day? Yum! You can use any cinnamon roll recipe you want--you can even grab a loaf of frozen Rhodes bread dough if you really want to make it easy.

Dough Ingredients:
(or use a loaf of frozen bread dough, let is rise, follow assembly directions)
Dry ingredients
2 cups unsifted unbleached floured
¼ c sugar
1 Tbs salt
2 packages of active dry yeast
In sauce pan heat up (until just warm, not boiling):
2 ¼ c. milk
¼ c. cooking oil
Dough Directions:
Mix dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Add 1 egg to flour mixture along with warmed
liquid from sauce pan.
Beat it for 30 sec. on low speed, followed by 3 minutes on medium speed.
By hand, gradually stir in 4-5 cups of flour to make a soft dough.
Kneed it on a floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 1 minute.
After kneeding let it rise covered in a warm place until doubled (45-60 minutes).
Assembly Directions:
Punch down dough. Separate dough into two equal portions. Roll out to form two large squares
(about 9x11 inches). Spread 1/4 c melted butter on top of dough. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar to
heart's desire.
Starting at each long end, roll the dough tightly in a roll toward the center. Pinch the seam shut.
Slice rolls with dental floss about 1 ½ inches thick. Pinch bottom to form heart shape. Place on
greased cookie sheets. Cover and let rise for another 45 to 60 minutes.
Bake for 13-18 minutes at 350 degrees. Frost with your favorite icing tinted with just a drop of
red food coloring.