Molasses Lassie Buns Food

TRADITIONAL NEWFOUNDLAND MOLASSES BUNS

Steps:

• 1- In a large bowl add molasses, boiling water and baking soda, mix together with a spoon until it starts to fizz. 2- Then add brown sugar, room temperature butter, and all spices mix in to mixture until all combined. 3- In a small bowl add egg and milk mix together then add to large bowl with the other ingredients mix together. 4- Then sift flour and salt into mixture and blend together, you may need to use your hand now to fold all together. Dust with more flour if it's to soft, form into a ball. 5- After sprinkle flour on your counter top or board then place the dough ball mixture on it and cut in half. 6- Take one half and add the pork fat piece into mixture, then roll out on counter top. 7- Take a small cookie cutter or glass and cut out small round pieces of dough and place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Continue doing this until all buns are cut out, then roll out the other half of your dough and continue doing the same thing. 8- Preheat your oven to 350° and set your timer to 15 minutes, when baked place on a cooling rack or serve hot. Prep time- 10 Minutes Baking time- 15 Minutes Buns baked- 12 to 24 depending on the size. If you would like to make these molasses buns like they did back in the day when they used pork fat in the making of these buns replacing the butter or margarine. You first fry out the small pieces of pork and the fat from the pork you put in a bowl only using a 1/2 cup of the fat and replacing the butter in this recipe. Also you can use the pork scrunchions instead of the raw pork in the molasses bun recipe. Continue following the recipe above for the other ingredients, you can also add a cup of raisins of choice to this same recipe if you like to have that too. These molasses buns was made so many ways back in the day and I'm bringing you one way that I make them and my mom made them.

MOLASSES STICKY BUNS (KAF)

Steps:

• For the dough: Combine all of the dough ingredients in a large mixing bowl. If you're using active dry yeast, combine it with the water and let it soften for 5 minutes before adding the remaining ingredients. Mix and combine until you have a soft, smooth dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead for 5 minutes. Scrape out the mixing bowl, grease it, and return the dough to the bowl. Cover and let the dough rise for 1 hour. You can also combine all of the dough ingredients in the pan of your bread machine; let it run through the dough cycle.
• Prepare the pan and topping: While the dough is rising, grease a 9 x 13-inch pan. Combine the topping ingredients in a small saucepan over low heat, and stir until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth. Pour the topping into the prepared pan. If using nuts, sprinkle them over the topping mixture.
• To shape: After the dough's first rise, roll the dough into a 19 x 9-inch rectangle. Spread with the soft butter from the Filling ingredients. Sprinkle the dough with the brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll up like a jellyroll from the long side, and pinch the seam together. Cut the dough into 12 slices with a knife or some unflavored dental floss. Place the slices in rows, cut side down, on top of the topping. Cover the pan with greased plastic wrap and let rise for 45 minutes.
• To bake: Once the rolls are puffy-looking, preheat the oven to 350°F Bake for 30 Minutes, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the center of one of the rolls reads 190°F Remove from the oven and flip the buns over onto a serving tray or parchment-lined baking sheet. Let the pan sit on top of the hot buns for a few minute so the topping can drip down, before removing it. Serve the buns warm, if at all possible.

MOLASSES BUNS

Steps:

• Mix margarine or butter, molasses, sugar, and boiling water in a bowl.
• Add spices and baking soda.
• Add flour and raisins.
• Mix together just enough to blend well.
• Chill dough in fridge for 20 minutes.
• Roll out dough and cut into circles.
• Bake at 325 for 15-20 minutes.

MOLASSES (LASSIE) BUNS

Steps:

• Mix all dry ingredients. Cut in butter and mix until lumps of butter have been broken up and well-distributed. Make a well in the middle of the mixture and add the molasses. Mix well, adding the warm water as needed.
• Flour a cutting board or flat countertop and roll dough out to desired thickness (I usually roll it out to about 3/8" thick.) Take a large glass and, using the rim, cut out large circles. Turn them onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes at 400 degrees F. (Time depends on the oven. I never go over 15 minutes and cookies remain soft). Recipe makes about 4 dozen large cookies. I generally halve all the ingredients to make a smaller batch.

MOLASSES GOLDEN RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• Add all the ingredients except the raisins to the breadmaker and run on the dough cycle, for my breadmaker this is the order given and the dough cycle lasts 90 minutes. Note: I like to mix the warm water, milk and molasses and "proof" the yeast in it for about 10 minutes before adding the remaining ingredients.
• When the dough cycle has finished start it again, and add the raisins, let it run for 5 to 10 minutes to mix all the raisins in and then stop it.
• Make dough into a smooth loaf and place in a greased 9" x 5" loaf pan.
• Cover with plastic wrap and let raise until doubled.
• Bake in a preheated 350F oven about 35-45 minutes, loaf should be golden and sound hollow when tapped.