Recipe: Oatmeal Rolls

These rolls are so delicious. My friend, Angela, reminded me about this recipe. We got it from Sheri, a mutual friend. When I made soup for dinner and wanted some bread to go with it, I decided to make these rolls. The original recipe is below with my modifications in parentheses.

Ingredients:
2 C water
1/3 C brown sugar
1 C quick oatmeal (I prepared 1/2 C of quick oats then a 1/2 C of steel cut oats and combined for 1 cup.)
1 1/2 t salt
3 T butter
4 C flour (I used 3 1/2 C of whole wheat flour)
1 T yeast
1/3 C warm water
1 T sugar

Directions: Boil water. Add oatmeal and butter. Cook for 1 minute. Let cool. Dissolve yeast in 1/3 C warm water and add 1 T sugar. Add cool oatmeal mixture, brown sugar, salt and flour. Knead 5 minutes. Let rise to double. Punch down. Form into balls on cookie sheet. Let rise again. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 13 minutes.

As noted, I used some steel cut oats and whole wheat flour, which probably made the rolls a little denser, but they were not tough. The rolls were very soft and tender. The whole family loved them. Paige especially liked them with honey butter.