My Mom's Dinner Rolls

Yeah, I know. Three recipes in one day. I got laid off from my job and I'm now made of time.

My mom always forgot to make rolls beforehand and very rarely did they get a chance to rise. Somehow, these always turned out great.

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp. dry yeast

2 c. warm water

1/3 c. sugar

1/3 c. olive or vegetable oil

1 egg

2 1/2 tsp. salt

2/3 c. nonfat dry milk

5-6 c. all-purpose white flour

Directions:

1) In a large electric mixer (or use a hand mixer with dough attachments) combine yeast and warm water. Let stand 5 minutes

2) Add sugar, oil, egg, dry milk, and salt, plus 2 cups of flour.

3) Mix on high speed until mixture is smooth.

4) Add remaining flour, 1 cup at a time, until dough forms a soft ball.

5) Shape into round balls for rolls. Dough should fill one jellyroll pan, or make 30 balls.

6) Bake at 400 degree for 15-20 minutes.

Southern Pride Sweet Cornbread

There is nothing more annoying than crumbly cornbread. You can't get it out of the pan, you can't cut it in half to butter it. It's like picking up a handful of sand and trying to stuff it into your mouth.

I found this recipe today online and tried it tonight with chili. We ate the entire pan. (Granted, I did half the recipe, but still....it was good!!) It was sweet, moist, and slightly more dense than the regular stuff.

Southern Pride Sweet Cornbread

1 1/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. honey (just add more sugar if you don't have honey)
2 eggs
1/2 cup softened butter
1 c. milk
1 c. water
2 cups cornmeal
2 cups flour
1 TBSP baking powder
1 tsp salt

Grease 9 x 13 pan. Heat oven to 375. Mix sugar, butter, eggs, milk, honey, and water together. Mix dry ingredients. Blend wet and dry ingredients together. Mixture will be slightly lumpy. Pour into greased pan, bake until golden brown on top. Serve with butter.

Holiday Magic

I just have to start off my recipe sharing with this delectable pumpkin bread. I got this recipe from my Aunt Jessie when I was still in high school. We'd visited her and I couldn't stop eating the stuff! It's SO good. Here goes:

Delicious Pumpkin Bread

5 eggs

1 c. vegetable oil

1 can (15 oz) pumpkin

2 c. flour

1 t. cinnamon

1 t. baking soda

2 boxes (3 oz) cook & serve vanilla pudding 

2 c. sugar

1/2 t. salt

Preheat oven to 325. Beat eggs. Add oil & pumpkin and beat. Combine remaining ingredients, gradually beat into pumpkin mixture. Pour batter into 2 greased regular loaf pans, or 5 greased small loaf pans. (5" x 2.5" x 2") Bake for 70-80 minutes in 2 normal pans, or 50-55 minutes for 5 small pans. 

Notes:  I have never tried the 5 pan option, although I think that is what my aunt usually does. I also have wondered about trying to substitute some of the oil with applesauce, but have never tried it. The recipe originally called for 1 1/4 c. oil, but I found it was much too oily as a finished loaf. I reduced to 1 c. and it worked great. If anyone tries the applesauce option, let me know how it goes! Also, I find that my oven bakes faster than most recipes' suggested time-- so I put 70-80 minutes down instead of 75-80 as the recipe says. Good luck!