The Best Rolls!

(the one Melanie Poulsen makes)

(Dough can also be used for bread, cinnamon or cheese rolls)

5 cups of hot tap water
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
1T salt
1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil ( use 1/3 cup for bread)
1/2 cup honey ( 1/4cup for bread)
4 Cups flour (Lehi "Roller Mills Unbleached Turkey Flour, whole wheat flour or half & half) (I just use bread flour or regular unbleached.


Mix on speed 1 for a minute (looks like cake batter)
Then add:
3 T SAF instant yeast
Continue to add approx. 7 cups flour,1 cup at a time, until dough forms into a ball and sides of bowl are no
longer sticky.
Mix on speed 3 for 1 minute
Add 1/2c. to 1 cup of additional flour
mix on speed 3 for 4 minutes

Rub soft butter on counter and hands. Separate dough into 4 equal balls. Roll each ball into the size of large
pizza. and cut unto 12 pieces. Spray jello roll sheet with PAM. Roll up creasant from large end to small and
place on jelly roll sheet  (3 across and 8 down-24 rolls are almost touching) Put in oven on low setting 150-170 degrees...
While you roll out the other pan Recipe makes 4 dozen rolls. After 10-15 minutes, turn oven up to 360 degrees and bake until top and bottoms of rolls are light brown. Approx.15 min.When you remove 1st pan,
the 2nd is risen enough and is ready to put in to bake.

My notes: This recipe makes several dozen.  If you're baking for a group, it's great. But for the average family, it's way too much, and rewarmed rolls are never as good, right?!  I roll up the crescents, place them on the cookie sheet, and then freeze until they are solid. Then I remove them all and put them in a bag and return to the freezer. That way I have my own home made "Rhodes" rolls in the freezer.  Let them thaw and rise for a bit, and then bake as normal.