What do you use when making buns to eat?

Answer 1

If by buns you mean for burgers, here is a recipe I love from ehow.com:

Materials Needed:

1/4 cup milk

1 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

1/8 cup chicken fat heated to liquid

1 cup warm water

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg

2 tablespoons wheat gluten

4 cups wheat flour

4 cups unbleached white flour

Instructions:

Step 1

In a small sauce pan on low, heat the milk until it is warm to the touch. In a large bowl mix the sugar into the milk and then sprinkle the yeast on top. Let the yeast sit five minutes to proof.

Step 2

To the yeast mixture add the fat, water, salt and egg. Slowly stir in the wheat gluten and wheat flour. Then mix in the white flour.

Step 3

Turn out the dough and knead for five minutes. Try to add as little flour as possible. A pastry scraper may come in handy if the dough is really sticky when you start out. (I don't have a pastry scraper so I just use a metal spatula.)

Step 4

Place the dough in a greased bowl and allow it rise until double, about 1 1/2 hours.

Step 5

Punch down the dough and then divide it in half. I made half of the dough into a loaf and put it in a greased bread pan and the other half into six buns. You could make all the dough into buns if you wanted. I shaped the remainder of the dough into flat biscuits with my hands - about the same size as the burger patties. In hindsight I should have made them slightly smaller because they rose a little bit. Place the patties on a greased cookie sheet and preheat the oven to 375F degrees.

Step 6

Bake the rolls for 15-25 minutes or until they are golden brown. Then let them cool on a rack so they don't get soggy bottoms. I let the loaf to rise for about 45 minutes before baking it. I wanted the buns to be denser so they wouldn't fall apart when eating the burger. However, I wanted the loaf of bread to be lighter. The bread loaf took about 45 minutes to bake.

Nutrition: The buns come out at 325 calories, 3 grams of fat and 2 grams of fiber for WW point value of 6. (These are very large buns)