Junior Chef: Baking Bread Rolls with Kids

At momstown Central Alberta's monthly Junior Chef Program, moms and their kids got busy baking bread rolls!!

Recipe for Bread Rolls - Makes 16
(taken from Usborne Books Farmyard Tales Children's Cookbook)
4 1/4 cups of wheat flour or strong while bread flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons of sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons rapid rise dried yeast
1 cup 2 tablespoons of milk
2 tablespoons of butter
1 egg ( we used 2)
preheat oven to 425 F

We started the process at home before the event to save time, because the dough does need time to rise.

1. Shake the flour and salt through a sieve into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar and yeast, then make a hollow in the middle.

2. Put the milk and butter in a pan and heat it very gently until the butter had just melted. Take the pan off the heat
3. Pour the mild mixture into the hollow in the flour. Stir until it is all mixed and no longer sticks to the side of the bowl.

4. Sprinkle some flour onto a clean, dry work surface, Knead the dough by pushing it away from you with both hands.
5.  Fold the dough in half and turn it around, then push it away from you again. Fold and turn it then push the dough away again.
6. Knead the dough until it is smooth and stretchy. Dip a paper towel in oil, then rub it inside a bowl. Place dough in the bowl

7. Cover the bowl with plastic food wrap. Leave in a warm place for about 45 minutes, until the dough has risen to twice its size
8.Knead the dough again for about 1 minute to burst any large bubbles of air in it. Divide the Dough into 16 pieces

9. Roll each piece of dough to make a "sausage" about 10 inches long. Tie each one into a knot and put it on a greased baking sheet

10. Turn on the oven. Rub the plastic wrap with oil, then over the rolls. Put back into a warn place for ten minutes.
11.Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl then take the plastic wrap off the tolls. Brush each roll with some of the beaten egg(s). You can sprinkle Poppy or Sesame Seeds onto the rolls after brushing them with egg.

10. Turn on the oven. Rub the plastic wrap with oil, then over the rolls. Put back into a warn place for ten minutes.
11.Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl then take the plastic wrap off the tolls. Brush each roll with some of the beaten egg(s). You can sprinkle Poppy or Sesame Seeds onto the rolls after brushing them with egg.
12. Bake the rolls for 10-12 minutes, leave then on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then leave them to cool on a wire rack.

We had Parmesan cheese and Cinnamon Sugar to sprinkle on our rolls like they were baked in the mall at a pretzel shop. Yummy!!