Parker House Rolls

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons warm water (105 to 115 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter

degrees F) 1 cup whole milk
3 tablespoons sugar 2 cups bread flour
1 (¼ -ounce) package (2 ½ teaspoons) active 1 ½ teaspoons salt
dry yeast ¾ - 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1. Stir together warm water, 1 tablespoons sugar and yeast in a small bowl until yeast in
dissolved. Let stand until foamy, about five minutes. If the mixture does not foam up, throw it
out and start over with different yeast. Foam means that the yeast is livin'.

2. Melt 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) butter in a small saucepan. Add the milk and heat until
lukewarm. Pour into a large bowl and add yeast mixture, remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar,
bread flour, and salt. Stir with a wooden spoon until just combined.

3. Stir in 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, dump out onto a clean work surface and begin to bring the
dough together into a ball. If your dough is too sticky to handle, add up to 1/2 cup of all-purpose
flour a tablespoon at a time until the dough is just slightly sticky.

4. Knead dough until a smooth and elastic dough begins to form, adding more all-purpose flour
as needed. The dough will be smooth, satiny and just slightly sticky after 10 minutes. Good job!
Form dough into a ball and place in a large, buttered bowl, turning the dough so that the entire
ball is covered. Cover with plastic wrap and a towel and let rest n a warm, draft free place until
doubled in size, about 1 hour.

5. Butter a 9x13-inch baking pan. Divide dough into 20 equal pieces. Roll each one into a ball
and arrange evenly in 4 rows of 5 in a baking pan. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise in
a warm, draft free place until almost doubled in size, about 45 minutes.

6. Using a floured chopstick or the edge of a ruler, make a deep crease down the center of each
row of rolls. Let rolls rise, loosely covered for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and
place a rack in the center of the oven.

7. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter and cool slightly. Brush the tops of the rolls with
butter and place in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown. Cool rolls in the pan for 5
minutes then remove and serve warm. Reheat rolls wrapped in foil in a 375 degree oven if you'd
like to eat them the next day with butter and jam. Serious yum.