Hamburger Buns....Lisa's

* Exported from MasterCook *

Hamburger Buns....Lisa's

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Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Bread Buscuits & Dumplings

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(So-much-better-than-store-bought homemade hamburger buns from your
bread machine).

This is a deceptively simple, but enriched white bread, grandma-style
dough. Small additions such as malt (if you don't have it, leave it out
but check sources before abandoning it prematurely, it's worth the addition),
a touch more sugar, and oil make the sort of dough that commercial bakeries
fashion their hamburger rolls with - only these taste a million times better.
In fact,
the malt, sugar, and oil, in fact, are responsible for the wholesome
flavor but more importantly, contribute to nice, even browning on these
rolls - so characteristic of commercial hamburger rolls. Easily made in
the bread machine on Dough Cycle, then plucked out and shaped into
rolls, this recipe makes incredible, wonderfully spongy and
flavor-packed, SUBSTANTIAL hamburger rolls take the average barbecued
hamburger supper up a notch. You need a bread machine capacity of at
least 1 1/2 pounds to make this recipe.

1 1/2 cups warm water
5 teaspoons dry yeast
pinch sugar
1/3 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon malt powder or syrup, (*) optional (gives rich flavor) OR 1
teaspoon barley malt syrup
6 cups, approximately, bread flour
milk for brushing
sesame Seeds

Place water, yeast and pinch of sugar in bread machine pan and let stand
for a couple of minutes. Add in remaining ingredients in order given.

Place machine on dough mode. When cycle is over, remove dough from
machine. Gently deflate. Divide dough in 8-10 portions, cover with a
clean tea towel and let rest five minutes. Shape each portion into a
ball and place, evenly spaced apart, on a parchment paper lined baking
sheet. Insert entire sheet in a large plastic bag (like a garbage bag).

Allow to rise until quite puffy, around 20-30 minutes. Remove from
plastic bag. Flatten each roll gently with palm of hand.

Brush, if desired with milk and sprinkle on sesame seeds. Preheat oven
to 375 F. Bake, until nicely browned, around 15-20 minutes. Freeze
leftovers.

8-10 Rolls or Buns

(*) Malt powder can be found in health food stores or you can substitute
a teaspoon of barley malt syrup, found in home beer brewing stores, and health
food stores. King Arthur Flour catalog sells dried and syrup forms. Lisa :O)



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