Bread & Yeast Recipes > Coffee Time Rolls

How to make coffee time rolls:
Fancy bread rolls enriched with eggs and rosewater. An unusual dough mixture which is made in a similar way to the pastry used for raised pies i.e. hot water crust pastry.





Ingredients

1 pint milk
1 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups strong plain flour
1 1/2 tablespoons rose water
9 eggs separated
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Boil the milk, butter and sugar and mix the flour and rose water into the boiling liquid very carefully.
- Stir in the well beaten egg yolks and 7 of the whites.
- Place the dough in little heaps in a greased baking tin.
- Brush with egg white and sprinkle with a little sugar.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180oC/350oF/gas mark 4 for about 20 minutes.