Anyone have an *easy* recipe for cole slaw??? Please, I need this quickly. Also a simple recipe for bread buns / rolls. Tony,

I notice that folks have been offering plenty of recipes for coleslaw but not noticed one for bread buns/rolls. They are easy and cathartic. Don't know what supplies you have up there but guess the problem could be yeast. This often comes in little packets of dried yeast which, round here, are equivalent to an ounce of fresh yeast (which you may get from a baker) and sufficient for 1.5 lbs or so of flour and would make about 9 decent size rolls. Scale up or down as required/convenient.

Bread Rolls
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1.5 lbs strong (if available) plain flour.
1 oz fresh yeast (or equivalent dried which mixes in more easily)
good pinch of salt.

Mix together well (sifting the flour if you like) then add (preferably) warm water and start kneading it. You work the water in by taking a handful of the forming dough and squeezing down. adding more as requires until you have a gooey lump which feels sticky, holds together and comes away from the sides of the bowl cleanly.

Now imagine the dough is your worst enemy or the person who annoys you most - and this is not an occasion to treat them with tender love! :-) Take five minutes grabbing a handful of dough from the edge pulling it up and pushing it into the centre of the lump, continuing to do this all round the lump. (You can do this on a board rather than in the bowl but then you put it back in a large bowl.) Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place until it's doubled in size. If you have a hot-water cylinder in a cupboard that's ideal or by the heating furnace/fire.

This will probably take about an hour then give it another quick knead before breaking off lumps which you put on a well-floured baking-tray (or put baking parchment on the tray.) Don't put them too close together as they will double in size again in cooking. Cook in a hot oven (450 F from memory) for about 15 minutes or until when taken off the tray and tapped on the bottom they sound hollow.

Place on a cooling tray (or anything that will allow the air to get at the rolls from all round) until you can handle them easily. Break open, smother with butter and jam and enjoy with a nice cup of tea. Oops - scrub that last sentence, didn't you say this was to take to Winter Festival? :-)

You might feel more confident if you did a dummy run so you and Susan can check the method and the results.