Hamburger buns

I never have buns on hand and sometimes I just don't want to go shopping, so these are a good alternative. They took a bit of time to rise, but they were very easy to make overall.

Yield 10 buns:

13 1/ 4 to 3 3/4 cups flour

1 pack active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp.)

1 cup milk

1/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup butter, margarine, or shortening

1 beaten egg

Sitr together 1 1/4 cups of the flour and the yeast. In a saucepan, warm the milk, sugar, butter, and 3/4 tsp. of salt until warm and butter almost melts.  Add to the flour mixture and beaten egg. Beat with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds. Beat on high for 3 minutes.

Turn out dough and knead in the remaining flour until you have a moderately stiff and elastic dough.

Place in greased bowl. Cover and let rise until double (about 1 hour).

Punch down and shape into 10 circles that you flatten into 4 inch circles. Place on greased baking sheet and let rise about 30 minutes.

Bake at 375 for 15-18 minutes.

Pizza Dough Part Deuce

Pizza Crust

1 1/2 cups warm water

2 tsp. yeast

2 tsp. sugar

about 2 3/4 cups bread flour

1/3 cup semolina flour (optional)

1 tsp. salt

Makes 1 large pizza (so I double it to make 2)

Mix warm water, yeast and sugar in mixing bowl.  Let the yeast bloom.  When it is foamy on top, add the salt, semolina flour and about 2 cups of the bread flour (if making a single recipe).  Let knead in the mixing bowl and then gradually add more bread flour until the dough pulls together.  It is better to err on the side of slightly sticky rather than too stiff for this dough.  Let is knead for a few more minutes and then let it rise for about 1 hour.  

For pizza, roll out dough and place on a greased pizza pan.  Also, I like to spray the edge of the dough with a little oil so it browns better in the oven.  Top with sauce, cheese and toppings.

Bake at 500 degrees for about 9 minutes.

Eat!

Corn Bread

2 C. Flour
1 1/2 C. cornmeal
6 Tbsp. sugar
5 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. butter
4 eggs
2 C. milk
1 C. oil

This is a doubled recipe because that's how much my family likes it. For an 8x8 pan, halve it. But this goes in a 9x13.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place the 2 Tbsp. butter in the pan and put it in the oven to melt while you get everything else ready. This is the best part about the cornbread. When you pour your batter in the melted butter it fries up around the edges and makes it delicious!

Stir together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Combine eggs, milk and oil in separate bowl and mix well with fork. Pour into dry mixture and stir until moistened. Do not over mix

Pour batter into hot pan of butter and return to oven for 25 min.