Ingredients:
2 cups warm water (110 to 115 degrees)
2/3 cup nonfat dry milk (instant or non-instant)
2 tablespoons dry yeast
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1/3 cup butter, shortening, or margarine
1 egg
5 to 5 ½ cups all-purpose flour, or bread flour
Method:
In large bowl or electric mixer, combine water and milk powder; stir until milk dissolves. Add yeast, then sugar, salt, butter, egg, and 2 cups flour. Mix on low speed until ingredients are wet, then for 2 minutes at medium speed. Add 2 cups flour; mix on low speed until ingredients are wet, then for 2 minutes at medium speed. (Dough will be getting stiff and remaining flour may need to be mixed in by hand). Add about ½ cup flour and mix again, by hand or mixer. Dough should be soft, not overly sticky, and not stiff (It is not necessary to use the entire amount of flour).
Scrape dough off sides of bowl and pour about one tablespoon of vegetable oil all around sides of bowl. Turn dough over in bowl so it is covered with oil. (This helps prevent dough from drying out). Cover with plastic and allow to rise in warm place until double in size, about 45 minutes.
Scrape dough out onto floured board. Turn dough over so it is floured on both sides; gently flatten to about 1 inch thick. With rolling pin, roll out to a rectangle about 18 inches long, 8 inches wide, and ¼ inch thick. Brush with melted butter. With pizza cutter or very sharp knife, cut dough in half to make two strips about 4 inches wide. Make cuts through strips of dough every 2 inches, making about 18 pieces of dough. Or follow the directions on the video.
Starting with short end, roll up one piece of dough, with butter on the inside. Place roll on parchment-lined pan with other short end down on the paper. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough. Be sure all rolls face the same direction on baking pan. Cover lightly with plastic wrap and allow to rise until double in size, about 1 to 1 ½ hours. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes, or until light to medium golden brown. Brush tops of rolls with melted butter. Serve with Honey Butter. Makes 1 to 1 ½ dozen rolls.
Helpful Tips for Making Rolls
Always add flour gradually and keep dough as soft as you can handle. A soft dough will produce a lighter roll.
It is not necessary to use the entire amount of flour called for in the recipe—add only enough flour to make dough manageable.
To shorten dough's rising time, use one of these methods:
1) When dough is thoroughly mixed, oil bowl and cover dough with plastic wrap. Fill sink or larger bowl with about 2 inches of hot water or enough water to come about half or three-fourths the way up outside the dough bowl. Place bowl of dough in bowl of water and allow to rise until double in size.
2) Just before mixing dough, turn oven on lowest possible temperature. Place a pan of hot water on bottom oven rack. When dough is thoroughly mixed, place in oiled bowl. Cover dough with plastic wrap; place in oven. Turn oven off, shut oven door, and allow dough to rise until double in size, about 50 to 60 minutes. Shape or cut into desired rolls. Place rolls on greased or parchment-lined pans and allow to rise until double in size. Bake according to recipe.
Brush top of rolls with butter when first taken from oven.
How to consistently make attractive, good-tasting rolls? Practice! Practice! Practice!
Everyone loves Lion House Roll, but no one knows how to make the "roll". I found this clip that shows you how to roll the rolls. The recipe was on kls.com so no copy right issues there.
Honey Butter
Ingredients:
½ cup butter, softened
½ teaspoon vanilla
½ cup honey
Method:
Whip softened butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and honey gradually. Beat for 20 minutes. Makes 1 cup.
If you give the rolls a try let me know how they turn out!
I went to Walmart this morning for some groceries and when I left the house it was nice and sunny so I decided not to wear a jacket. I ran into dad and Blainer at the store and we shopped for a while. Then we passed the doors and found that it was snowing.... Maybe I should have worn a coat??
It was FREEZING when I went to my car. I put my groceries away and got in to warm up. Then realized I had to get back out to clean off my completely covered windows...
Even though it sucked without a coat, isn't it SO pretty!?!?
The Bountiful Temple is a very beautiful temple.
Heather and Phil came out of the temple just beaming!
Heather's dress laced up the back (Brooke helped Heather get into her dress just before the reception-the lacing was real and they had taken all of the lacing out when she took the dress off at the temple, so it had to be completely laced! Brooke did a good job lacing it back up again), the whole top of the dress-front and back was beaded
Heather's train flowed so nicely. This picture doesn't do it justice.
See how happy Heather is. She was like that the whole day!
Here is the whole Stephen and Christine Thompson family, with the newest addition.
The twin cousins Heather and Danielle.
Here is the completed cake. I am going to do a blog about the cake. Heather's colors where red, pink and black. Phil looked very handsome in his black tux, black shirt, and red tie. The boys in Heather's family wore black slacks, red shirts and black ties. The boy's in Phil's family wore pink shirts, black slacks and black ties.
Heather sang a song for Phil but the pictures of that didn't turn out, the lighting was bad. Anyway after the song it was time to cut the cake. I told Heather and Phil how to cut the cake and then I told them to fed the cake to each other nicely-no shoving cake in each other face. Phil said that he had already been told that, I said good. Then Phil said that he thought it would be good to smash the cake in Heathers face. I said "Don't Do It!" They were good and it was sweet just as it is supposed to be.
You can see Papa and Grandma Thompson in the background of the last two pictures.
Danny and Jenny created a bathroom cake for Heather and Phil. It turned out real cute. They hid all kinds of little surprises in the towels. You will have to ask them what those surprises were. It's not blog appropriate. :D 
