This family recipe from our Aunt Jo is well over 100 years old. It is a cherished recipe for many reasons. Our aunt Jo is 85 years old and still continues to make these dinner rolls. Aunt Jo was the youngest of 12 children. Her Papa owned a small farm in the Pecos valley. Sadly aunt Jo's mama passed away when she was only eight years old. Aunt Jo missed the company of her mother but learned how to occupy herself while her papa farmed. Jo was quite a few years younger than her siblings who had grown up and left home. Her brothers enlisted in the service and her sisters were married and had started their own families.
Aunt Jo graduated from college, taught first grade, married and had a baby girl. Missing her mother she tried to remember the dinner roll recipe that her mother taught her. She practiced making it until she got it perfect. Obviously the thought of mama's dinner rolls brought her comfort.
I have been working on a cookbook of favorite family recipes and wanted to include a recipe for steakhouse bread. My children and I love the bread they serve at steakhouses. Our family did not eat out much so when we did go out it was a special treat. I thought that I would use our aunt Jo's original yeast dinner roll recipe as a foundation to make steakhouse dinner rolls. They turned out so wonderful I wanted to share it with you.
Aunt Jo graduated from college, taught first grade, married and had a baby girl. Missing her mother she tried to remember the dinner roll recipe that her mother taught her. She practiced making it until she got it perfect. Obviously the thought of mama's dinner rolls brought her comfort.
I have been working on a cookbook of favorite family recipes and wanted to include a recipe for steakhouse bread. My children and I love the bread they serve at steakhouses. Our family did not eat out much so when we did go out it was a special treat. I thought that I would use our aunt Jo's original yeast dinner roll recipe as a foundation to make steakhouse dinner rolls. They turned out so wonderful I wanted to share it with you.
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3 Large eggs
3/4 Cup molasses (don't use black strap)
1/4 Cup brown sugar
1/2 Cup Salted butter If using unsalted butter add salt to this recipe.
2 Packages of dry yeast regular
1 1/4 Cups warm tap water
1 Cup Almost heaping whole wheat flour
5 Cups unbleached white flour almost heaping
Pam or oil to grease pans.
Makes approximately 12 large dinner rolls.
If you are watching your sugar you may omit the brown sugar and 1/4 cup of the molasses but the bread will not be the dark color.
These are sweet dinner rolls.
3/4 Cup molasses (don't use black strap)
1/4 Cup brown sugar
1/2 Cup Salted butter If using unsalted butter add salt to this recipe.
2 Packages of dry yeast regular
1 1/4 Cups warm tap water
1 Cup Almost heaping whole wheat flour
5 Cups unbleached white flour almost heaping
Pam or oil to grease pans.
Makes approximately 12 large dinner rolls.
If you are watching your sugar you may omit the brown sugar and 1/4 cup of the molasses but the bread will not be the dark color.
These are sweet dinner rolls.
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Oh, HEY! They're not too sweet! And they're silky soft.
Tweaked them a little - used salted butter plus 1-1/2 tsp. salt, about half the flour was whole wheat, and I began with sourdough starter along with the water and about 2 cups of whole wheat flour about 16 hours before adding the rest of the ingredients and letting it rise twice. Made 24.
This is a great recipe - I hope the judges are good to you!
The bread was cooked with oatmeal in the bottom of the pan, I did not use corn meal. I had made copy cat recipes from other peoples recipes and did not like them in the least. So that is when I decided to try and alter my aunts recipe. I was very happy with the results. I have not had the opportunity to eat that bread for many many years because in my area they don't have any of these restaurants so I could compare it to. In my memory this bread comes very close.
In the future I will continue to tweak this recipe until I have that rich dark bread that I remember. This bread lacked the darker color I had wanted to achieve although it did have a dark color. If you make this using your bread machine, please refer to my answer to another person. I gave a link about that discussion. As far as I can tell you should be able to use this recipe in your bread machine. But please read the link for yourself and make your decision based on those facts, I might have overlooked something.
One person has made this bread also. You may also try and ask her if she felt that they were like the steakhouse bread. That way you would have 2 opinions. She altered her recipe but she posted pictures and they look a lot like mine. So for what it is worth! I would say try it!
Use this recipe and if you don't like it, tweak it to what you think it taste like and please please if you can do better than I have I want that recipe!!!! Let me rephrase, pretty please send me the recipe! If you have any more questions please ask, I am interested in helping others such as yourself achieve results that will produce that wonderful bread.
I wonder if your recipe can be done in our bread machine....
You are making be hungry!!!! ;-P~~