60 Minute Dinner Rolls

   Of all my recipes... this is the one I use the most! My family and I love bread, so this is a perfect recipe. Hot rolls in only 60 minutes... from start to finish.
   I got this basic recipe from a friend years ago before I was even married. The one thing that I noticed was that the rolls were very good right after they baked, but the leftover rolls were always a little dry. So the only change I made was to use honey instead of sugar. Now my rolls are yummy even when leftover... even though we rarely have leftovers.

60 Minute Dinner Rolls
Ingredients:
   4 Tablespoons butter, divided
   ½ cup milk
   ½ teaspoon salt
   1½ Tablespoons honey, divided
   1 package yeast
   ¼ cup water (lukewarm)
   2 to 2 ½ cups flour
In mixing bowl, combine ½ Tablespoon of honey, yeast, and lukewarm water. Let yeast begin to rise.
In a separate bowl (or saucepan), mix together 2 Tablespoons butter, salt, and 1 Tablespoon of the honey. Cook or microwave until butter is melted and salt dissolved. Stir mixture to be sure salt is dissolved. I usually microwave (covered) on high for about 60 seconds. I then add my milk and heat until lukewarm (30 seconds in the microwave). Be sure mixture is lukewarm. (You can add 1 or 2 ice cubes to speed up the cooling process if you get it too hot.)

Add cooled butter mixture to yeast mixture and stir.

Add about 2 cups of the flour and stir with spoon.
Begin kneading dough in bowl; adding a little flour as needed.
Place dough on lightly floured surface and continue to knead dough.
Continue kneading until it no longer sticks to counter, but is still sticky and soft to touch.
Place back in bowl.
Cover and let rise 20 minutes (or until doubled).
Punch down dough.
Place dough on lightly floured surface.
And roll into a large circle.
Melt 2 Tablespoons of butter in microwave. Using pastry brush, brush circle of dough with part of the melted butter.
Use a pizza cutter to cut circle into 12 wedges.
Roll each wedge from outside edge of circle to center to form crescent shaped rolls.
Place rolls on greased baking sheet (or ungreased baking stone) so that the point of the wedge is on the under side.
Brush tops with the remaining melted butter.
Cover and let rise 10 minutes.
Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until tops are brown.
Makes 12 rolls.

Notes:
Each roll is 3 Weight Watchers points.
One recipe of dough made with all white flour is 29 WW points.
If using whole wheat flour, 1 c. is 4 pts. instead of 8 pts. for white flour.