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Ponderer, if you use a bread machine, here's a fun recipe for dinner rolls:

1 scant cup hot tap water
Add 1 cold egg to equal 1 cup
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp sugar
3Tbsp olive oil
3 cup bread flour
1 scant Tbsp yeast
Measure your cup of water a little bit short and use hot tap water. Add an egg from the fridge to the water. This gets both to the right temp. No need to beat it, the machine will handle all that. Pour it in the machine add the rest of the ingredient in the order listed.
Make dough as usual adding more flour if it's sticky.
when it's done turn the flour out on a well floured breadboard.
Using a Bench Knife cut it in half, half it again and again and again, dredge it with flour if its sticky.
Cut half of the dough into a bunch of little chunks that will roll into about a 1 inch ball.
Have a muffin tin oiled and ready.
roll each piece of dough very quickly into a rough ball and toss them into the muffin tin, 3 to 5 in each section. depending on size. This recipe makes 18 rolls so you'll need three tins that hold six or a twelver and a sixer.
No need to let them rise at all. Just pop 'em in the oven and bake about 25 minutes at 350F til they are golden brown.
Serve right out of the oven.

If you don't have a Bench Knife get one!

They're also great for scooping up spills, or chopped onions from the cutting board. No kitchen should be without one.