Subj : Cinnamon Rolls from a no To : All From : Dave Drum Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 05:19:04 So I'm reading this "cozy mystery" on my Kindle portable library and I see recipes bunged in every few chapters. So, thinks I, "Why don't I MM these guys up to add to the data base?" This is the first of them - which took me, probably, as long to get into Meal Muncher as the recipe would take to get right up to popping the rolls into the over. Ms Fluke writes good, terse prose but her recipes are long-winded. IMO MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Special Cinnamon Rolls - Pt 1 Categories: Breads, Snacks, Chocolate, Herbs Yield: 12 servings 1/2 c Hot coffee 1/2 c Whole milk 1 tb Granulated sugar 1/4 oz Env dry active yeast 1/4 c Salted butter 1 tb Vegetable oil 1 lg Egg 1 ts Salt 1/4 c White sugar 3 c (to 3 1/2 c) (packed) A-P - flour MMMMM--------------------------FILLING------------------------------- 1/2 c Salted butter; softened 1 tb Ground cinnamon 3/4 c Granulated sugar 1 c Semisweet chocolate chips MMMMM------------------------FOR THE PAN----------------------------- 2 tb Softened butter 2 tb Granulated sugar 1 ts Ground cinnamon MMMMM---------------------------ICING-------------------------------- 1 c Confectioner's sugar 1 tb Salted butter; melted 1 tb Milk 1/2 ts Vanilla DO NOT preheat oven. This dough needs to rise before baking. In a small microwave-safe container, combine the hot coffee with the half-cup milk. Microwave it on HIGH for 30 seconds. Stir in the Tablespoon of white sugar. Then pour a half-cup of the mixture into another container. Add the packet of yeast to the microwave-safe container and gently stir it in. Let it sit on the counter to proof (that's what they call it when yeast starts working and bubbling) while you Melt the butter in another small microwave container. It should only take about 30 seconds on HIGH. Add the Tablespoon of vegetable oil and let it sit on the counter to cool. In a medium-size bowl, use a wooden spoon or a fork to beat the egg with the salt, the white sugar, and the coffee and milk mixture that does NOT contain the yeast. Feel the small bowl with the butter and oil mixture. If it's not so hot it could cook the egg, stir it into your work bowl. Add 1 and 1/2 cups of the flour. Stir it in and continue to stir until the mixture is smooth. Now add the yeast mixture. (See how puffy it is? Your yeast is working.) Stir it in gently. Add 1 and 1/2 more cups of flour in half-cup increments, stirring after each addition. (Remember to pack it down in the cup!) If the dough seems sticky, add that last half-cup of flour and stir that in. Now comes the fun. Clear a space on your counter for the bread board. If you don’t have a bread board, just clear a nice clean space on your counter. Dust your work space with flour, spreading it out in a circle with your impeccably clean palms. Then upend your work bowl and plop the dough down on your floured circle. Sprinkle more flour over the top of your dough. Then grab it and flip it over so the bottom is now the top. Think about that old flame who broke up with you in high school, or anyone else in your past you’d really like to slap or punch. Visualize that person's face in the center of your mound of dough, pick up one edge and punch it down hard in the center of the dough. Fun, wasn't it? Turn your dough clockwise and do it all over again. Keep turning and punching and pummeling that dough for the whole 5 minutes, flipping it over every minute or so to make sure you're also kneading the bottom. CONTINUED TO PART 2 RECIPE FROM: Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen series Book 15) Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives MMMMM .... "All sorrows are less with bread." -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ___ MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Get your COOKING fix here! - bbs.outpostbbs.net:10323 (1:18/200) .