For Those Interested

Grandma's Homemade Rolls

1 c hot water
pinch salt (1/2 tsp)
1 small cake yeast or 1 pkg dry yeast
1/2 c warm water (mix warm water and yeast together)
2 tsp sugar
1 Tbsp butter
5 c flour

To hot water add salt, sugar, butter. To warm water add yeast. Combine after yeast is melted. Add water to flour, mix with fork (can add flour or water to get right consistency.) Let stand 5 min. Knead (the more it is worked, the more air is incorporated, making lighter bread.) Grease bottom of a large bowl with butter or grease. Let mix raise for 20 min, work down. Let stand 30 min. Grease shallow baking pan with butter, form rolls (pinch off a piece of dough about the size of 1/2 a tennis ball, form into a roll by placing thumb in the center of the dough and pulling the dough around thumb several times until dough is smooth everwhere but where your thumb has been, close this spot by pinching the edges against each other and placing the dough in the pan with the spot as the bottom.) Coat tops with butter, let rise to top of pan. (approx. double original size or more.) Bake for 30 min, until tops are golden to dark brown.

Oven temp 375, can preheat to 400

Hope you enjoy them. They are one of my favorite foods from childhood.