I didn't know what to make for dinner and it was already 5pm. I was looking up different things to do with ground beef and ran across sloppy joes, but we don't keep bread in our house.
So I whipped these up!
I put in a tad too much sugar for my liking, but they'd go great with jelly or something sweet. The sloppy joe masked the hint of sweetness though.
Of anything I know how to do, it's making bread in a pinch. lol.
2 cups of white flour 4.5 teaspoons of dry yeast (2 packages worth)
Put the flour + the yeast in a mixing bowl (if you have a mixer; if not, it still needs to go in a bowl)
1 cup of milk 2/3 cup if water 1 stick of butter (1/2 cup) 1/3 to 1/4 cup sugar (use less if you don't want sweetness) 1/2 teaspoon salt
Combine the milk, water, butter, salt, and sugar in a microwave safe container and microwave until lukewarm. (I did it on the stove in a sauce pan until the butter melted then hoped like hell I wouldn't kill my yeast).
Pour the warm mixture into your bowl of flour and yeast and combine. ****I used my mixer; I had to use the whisk attachment to get it smooth because the dough hook laughed at me; start off with a whisk****
Once smooth, toss in 2.5 cups of flour until it forms a sticky dough.
*Sticky as in, you can pick it up and it sticks a bit. Not so sticky that it leaves most of the dough on your fingers.
I added another 1/4 cup of flour once I was done mixing and mixed by hand to smooth it out.
Flour a pan with foil on top (flour your foil), put the dough on the pan and shove into your oven with the light on. Let it sit for 15 minutes.
Take out of the oven, move your foil to the counter, put a new piece of foil on the baking sheet and grease the baking sheet.
Make medium size balls (or large if you're in a hurry and you don't care if your balls stick together) and put on greased foil.
Put it back into the oven for 30 to 40 minutes with the light bulb on.
Take the dough out of the oven before you pre-heat!!
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Put pan of buns in oven for 12 to 15 minutes. 15 minutes if you made large balls; 12 if you made normal size ones.
Wait a few minutes before shoving them all in your mouth because they're hot as fuck. You're welcome.