After last weekend's less than successful pizza attempt, I decided that I should start at the beginning and make a basic yeast dough this time. I found a promising recipe for Basic Yeast Dough in The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook.
Here I have one packet of active dry yeast, one cup warm (105-115 degrees) water, one large egg, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons shortening and 3 to 3-1/2 cups all purpose flour.
Meanwhile, I blend the sugar, salt, egg, shortening and half the flour in a large bowl. My poor old hand mixer was struggling, so I switch to manually mixing the dough.
Once the yeast has bloomed, I combine with the other ingredients and gradually add the remaining flour until I have a soft dough.
I like Rosie Hawthorne's idea of heating a wet towel in the microwave before placing the bowl on the hot towel. Close the door and allow to rise until doubled in volume.
The directions for Cheese Crescents say to roll the dough out into a 12 inch circle. Bet you didn't know I even owned a rolling pin. Just because I had to dig it out of a closet and clean the cobwebs off it...
3 comments:
Bravo!
Well Marilyn, just a couple days ago I got my shiny new KitchenAid mixer from the nice UPS man. I am getting up my nerve to do just what you are doing. Yeast bread is my next bucket list item.
Good luck, Kathy. My daughter so wants a pink KitchenAid stand mixer.
I guess I should have added yeast bread to my bucket list, too.
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