Once the dogs were all gone, we still had a little dough left. Rhiannon said she wanted to make buns the cinnamon bun way, but only with butter. She's my butter girl. So we gave it a shot. Dip your dough in butter, tie it in a knot, put it in the pan. They turned out deliciously buttery.
By the time I remembered to take a photo of the finished pigs in a blanket and buttery buns, they had all been eaten. No surprise there.
So I have an idea about the buttery buns. The first idea is that if Rhiannon doesn't like butter, she might like orange buns. Just mix orange rhind that you have zested off of those big oranges, with brown sugar. Then do that the cinnamon bun way. You can try white sugar, but it is more likely to caramelize ion a fashion that some people will call burned. If there is a great outpouring for the recipe for Faye Pitcher's orange buns, I will put it up on the LarchHaven Cooking blog. There are to die for.
ReplyDeleteAnother good idea is to teach Rhoiannon how to make Parker House Rolls. Bring back that really fun shape which rarely comes out of a kitchen now. Too much work. My mom made those on enough occasions that I remember them.
Here is a quick tip on them. If you wipe the round circle (preferably bun, not bread dough) with butter and fold it over, in the rising it pulls back so much that when you open it, you don't have a bun that you could put left over turkey and cranberry sauce.
So here is what you do. With a sharp knife make a slice, just a hint of a slice a little left of half way, going to maybe 1/3rd but not quite that much. Then told that over, so that the top folds well over the bottom half. Then in the rising, it pulls back just the right amount. Next time we are together, we might practise this and get it down right Mary. My instructions here are pretty good. I should have made it into a whole blog post, and not just a comment. Oh well, how does a person know until they get typing. Just while I am here, Erva Sherwood is also good at Parker House Rolls. And thanks, Mary, for the wonderful pics. The process is way more fun than the finish.