Manna From Heaven: Jayne Clare's Roll Recipe

     I was needing to make bread today and felt like making rolls instead of loaf bread, so I pulled out the cookbook that I am currently trying to work my way through and saw the recipe for these lovely rolls.  I, along with many others, have consumed these rolls on multiple occasions and love them, and if they are like me, they likely miss them dearly.  For those of you who know the Clare family and have had the great fortune to eat some of Jayne Clare's rolls, this is the recipe.  Now I must admit, they did not turn out quite as fabulously as when she makes them, but they were still REALLY tasty and brought back a bunch of memories.  Here's the recipe as it appeared in the BYU 59th Ward Recipes December 2008 edition.

Rolls

Jayne Clare

Ingredients:

1 can evaporated milk

1 egg

1 c. sugar

1/2 c. oil

4 1/2 c. warm water

2 T salt

3 T fast-acting yeast

1/2 c. potato flakes

12-14 c. flour

Directions:

     Mix wet ingredients first and then put in your flour.  It works best if you have a bread mixer like a Bosh or even a bread machine works if you cut the recipe in half.  The bread has enough flour when it pulls away from the side all the way down the bowl almost to the bottom.  Then mix it for five minutes.  Let dough rise in bowl for fifteen minutes and then roll into balls five across and seven down in a large cookie sheet pan.  Let rise and then bake at 350 F for 20 minutes or until golden.  This recipe makes about 60-70 rolls.

Andi's Notes:

      The above instructions are exactly what appeared in the cookbook.  The following are notes from me regarding tips on things that I did as well as a few tips that Jayne gave me over the phone today.

1.  I mixed all of the ingredients, except for the flour, together first.  Not just the wet ingredients.

2.  I do not have a Bosch or a bread machine, so I had to adapt the directions a bit.  After I mixed the initial ingredients, I then added six cups of the flour and mixed that in well with an electric hand mixer.  I then added the remaining flour and just mixed that with a spoon and then my hands until it came together to form a dough.  I then kneaded the dough for about five minutes, let it rest for a few minutes, and then kneaded again for about another five minutes by hand.  At that point, I went back to following the rest of her original instructions (I picked back up at the instruction that says to place the dough in a bowl).

3.  Jayne told me that once she removes the pan of rolls from the oven she butters the tops of the rolls.  She also said that she removes the rolls from the pan as soon as they cool enough to not burn your hands and places them in a basket lined with a towel so that they wont sweat. 

     I hope you guys enjoy these as much as our friends and us did this evening!

The big discoveries of the day were as follows:
1. I found a Costco in downtown Vancouver and they have some pretty good looking items that I think they should add to the US Costcos.
2. I found a huge Asian grocery store/market that is just 2 blocks from our hotel. Needless to say, I've visited 3 times already today and ate 2 meals there. Pretty sure we'll be back again tomorrow.



This picture was taken outside of the conference center where Craig's conference is going on.

Eh?

I finally overheard someone say "eh" today. I don't think that Vancouver is an accurate representation of the country as a whole. Everyone I pass seems to be speaking a different language. I love the diversity of this place though, as I hear everyone speaking different languages and as I see/smell all of the international food vendors, my desire to travel grows!

Here is today's picture of the day from Canada. I passed this place yesterday when I was out exploring and decided that we needed to try it before leaving, so we went back today for lunch and this is what we had:



The restaurant (classy food shack by the water) was called, Go Fish. We got the fish and chips with slaw. We got one piece of salmon and one piece of cod. SO GOOD!

Oh Canada!

I'm going to try to feature a picture each day from our trip here in Canada. We have been very blessed to have the opportunity to be here in Canada. Craig's research has brought us to the land of the maple leaf and is thankfully paying for most of the trip as well! Craig presented at the conference today and reports that all went well! The conference goes through Friday and we arrived yesterday (Monday). We were looking forward to the food the most, but we've been surprised by many more great gifts of the city. Today I came across a rock artist, at least that's what I'm calling him. Here's a sample of his craft:



Also, it has been far too long since our last post. I promise to catch everyone up with our adventures over the past year and I promise to deliver some new, great recipes soon, but for now, I'm going to address our current trip to Vancouver, British Columbia.