Logan's Texas Roadhouse's Buttery Dinner Rolls

Directions

1. Place 2 cup flour in a large mixing bowl. Add in yeast, salt, sugar and dry lowfat milk. Set aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine water and egg and stir to blend. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour water mix into well. Mix by hand, beating 150 strokes and frequently scraping bottom and sides of bowl.
3. Add in half of the melted butter and beat to incorporate. Add in remaining flour, about 1/3 cup at a time, beating to incorporate each addition. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Set dough in a hot, draft-free place such as oven with pan of hottest tap water on rack below. Allow batter to rise till doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
4. Coat c., bottoms and sides of a 12-cup muffin pan (or possibly two small round pans) with butter-flavored vegetable shortening. Punch down batter (batter will be extremely soft and sticky). Drop by hand or possibly spoonful into prepared muffin pan cup to make 12 rolls (if in pan, each roll touching the next). Brush dough with half of the remaining melted butter. Let rise, uncovered, in hot, draft-free place till almost doubled in bulk, about 30 min.
5. In preheated 400 degree oven, bake rolls on middle rack 16 to 18 min. Brush tops of cooked rolls with remaining melted butter. Serve immediately.
6. This recipe yields 12 servings.
7. Comments: Logan's dinner rolls, prepared in huge quantities using commercial products, are difficult to duplicate, so taste and texture may vary slightly in this scaled-down recipe adapted for home cooks. Still, this recipe is speed-scratch fabulous.