Bread Rolls first try

I was having the family over and wanted to wow them with some homemade bread rolls for our burgers. I had made bread before, so how different can rolls be really?

As always, I trawled through Pinterest to find a recipe I liked. I landed on this one. Crunchy but soft in the middle. Perfect.

I'll say it again: I don't follow recipes. So instead of mixing and kneading the dough myself, I got my bread maker to do it. Now is a good time to mention that I have a single measuring jug, so the amount of water I use is always a guesstimate. However, despite my first class honours, I thought 1.5 cups of water equated to 425ml, instead of 375ml. Not a huge difference, but when I came back to my dough an hour amd a half later, I found it overflowing the baking tin and sticking to the sides of the bread oven. Oops.

The dough was also incredibly sticky and had huge bubbles of air in it. I tried using it as is, but that wasn't going to happen. I ended up using probably an extra cup of flour just so I could handle the dough. I portioned out the rolls and let them rise again (I had to really work th dough. So much for low effort). I baked the rolls, and was intrigued to see the process. I have only made bread in my bread machine, so I never really see it cook.

The rolls came out pretty well, some I cooked for longer to get a darker crust on them. I actually prefered the lighter crust ones, and I had them over the next few days warmed up in the microwave with a chunk of butter melted in. My family were all suitably impressed, although the rolls were a bit small and flat to be good burger rolls. I think I might need more practice ;)

Bake on,

Beth x