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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone made the NYT Fast and Easy Yeast Rolls? I tried them yesterday 3 times. [b]First time I followed the recipe exactly [/b]and they never seemed to rise and the dough felt very heavy. I assumed my yeast was bad (strange, it was new, but ok). Went out and bought brand new yeast and this time I added the milk to the yeast first to make sure it was alive. It wasn’t. Third time I used different milk, too, and it seemed to work, and I made the rolls, but they came out tasteless and rather dry. Thankfully I tried one last night and realized they were bad so I tossed them and went out to buy Pillsbury biscuits in a can. 
Anyway, has anyone made these and had success? My one thought was maybe my milk was too hot but I use a Thermapen instant read thermometer and get it spot on the recommended temp — 110 before adding it to the yeast. [/quote]

What did the commenters say? NYT recipes aren't actually recipes, they're more like a sketch or an idea of a dish they envision might work but almost universally fail if you actually follow them word for word. You HAVE to read the comments as NYT relies on the readership to take those skeleton drafts and do the trials and testing to get it to work.  [/quote]

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