LeAnn R. Ralph
If I've heard it once, I've heard it a dozen times: "Make homemade cinnamon rolls? From scratch? Are you crazy? That takes all day!"
Actually, it depends upon the recipe.
I have several recipes for homemade cinnamon rolls that do, indeed, take at least all afternoon, if not all day -- scald the milk and let it cool to room temperature (30 minutes); mix the dough and let it raise for an hour (1.5 hours); punch down the dough and let it raise for another hour (1 hour); shape into cinnamon rolls and let raise for another hour (1.5 hours); and then, finally, bake the cinnamon rolls (30 minutes) -- for a grand total of 5 hours from start to finish.
But it doesn't have to be that way. You really can make homemade cinnamon rolls from scratch in two hours or less.
Here's my recipe:
This recipes makes two dozen cinnamon rolls. If you want REALLY BIG cinnamon rolls, cut into 12 equal pieces 2 inches wide.
Total amount of time needed from start to finish (including time to bake) is about 2 hours.
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LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the book, Christmas in Dairyland
(True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm) (trade paperback) (August 2003). She is working
on her next book, Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam, which will be available
later in 2004. Read sample chapters and other Rural Route 2 stories at
http://ruralroute2.com
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