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Okay Darlings,
As
some of you may know the following ingredients for making hoagie rolls in a bread
maker has been floating around the web for some time.
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1 cup water (Temp. 110-115 degrees
F.)
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4 teaspoons vegetable oil
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2 teaspoons sugar
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1 teaspoon salt
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2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
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2 1/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast
And that is all. It appears to be nice, simple, and easy on
the purse, right? Hmm. The major problem
with this recipe is it lacks the softness of normal freshly baked rolls, and a
day or two in the refrigerator, you can use them to bat home runs out of
Wrigley Field. This was the dilemma I face after trying this recipe for the
first time some months ago.
Not only did the recipe not make six soft and chewy rolls,
the recipe made six small rolls that you could barely use for sub sandwiches.
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Okay, since there is only myself and my husband at home now,
our needs called for a smaller number of rolls, which is why I selected the
recipe. Fixing the size of the rolls was easy. When made correctly, you can use
the recipe to make four nice size hoagie roll or hamburger buns. Your choice.
However, the problem with the hardness of the rolls was another matter. That is
until I ran across a baker's tip on Wiki How.
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To use the above ingredients to make these rolls digestible;
you do need to add a few more ingredients. Therefore, below I am sharing my personal
adaptation of that web recipe (and it is nearly everywhere) for bread maker's hoagie rolls with
my choice of added ingredients.
Hoagie's
Bread Machine Made With Vital Wheat Gluten
Prep Time:
10 mins
- Total
Time: 2 hrs 15 mins
- Servings:
4
Ingredients
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1 cup water (Temp. 110-115 degrees
F.)
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4 teaspoons vegetable oil
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1 tablespoon honey
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1 teaspoon salt
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2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
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2 3/4 teaspoons vital wheat gluten
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1 2/4 teaspoons wheat flour
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2 1/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast
For glaze topping
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1 egg white
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1 tablespoon milk/water
Notes:
dough will be too dry so add enough to make tacky, but too wet. If dough is too
wet add flour to make tacky.
Directions
- Preheat
oven to 400 degrees
- Place
ingredients in order into the bread machine.
- Use
the dough cycle
- Before
cycle is done I lay out a piece of waxed paper with flour on it.
- The
cycle will beep when done,
- "punch"
dough down.
- Grease
hands or spray with cooking spray as dough is very "sticky".
- Remove
dough from bread machine and place on floured pastry mat, or floured waxed
paper.
- Sprinkle
a little flour on the top of the dough and "smooth" it over the
top of the dough.
- Spray
a knife with cooking spray
- Cut
the dough into 4 equal pieces
- Place
dough pieces evenly spaced apart on a cookie sheet sprayed with Pam.
- Shape
each piece of dough into an oval shape.
- With
kitchen scissors, make a "snip" in the center of each roll, about
1 to 2 inches long and about 1/4 inch deep.
- Cover
and let rise 20 minutes
- Bake
for about 20 minutes.
- Coat
rolls egg and milk glaze while still hot on a rack
These small additions to a well known web recipe made all
the difference in the world.
As stated before this recipe can also be used for making
hamburger buns. In the future I intend to use it to make baguettes and garlic bread when fewer servings
are needed. Furthermore, the rolls were still soft and delicious tasting right
from the plastic bag after four days on the counter.
Using personal bread machines is still fairly new. And we
that love to cook, also love the share. So let's do it right.
Until next time,
Chow,
Darlings
