These Fluffy Homemade Rolls aka – Refrigerator Rolls are so easy to make and go perfectly with homemade Cinnamon Butter. This vintage recipe was one of my grandmother’s recipes and we love it.
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We absolutely love this Fluffy Homemade Roll recipe that I found in my grandma’s old recipe collection! They’re so perfect fluffy and so easy to make!
What you’ll need to make Fluffy Homemade Rolls:
- water
- vegetable shortening (like Crisco)
- salt
- sugar
- active dry yeast
- all-purpose flour
- egg
- melted butter
How to make Fluffy Rolls at home:
Add 1/2 cup warm water to a medium bowl or cup. Sprinkle in yeast; let stand for 5 minutes untouched.
In a large bowl mix together, boiling water, sugar, salt and vegetable shortening. Stir until vegetable shortening is melted. Then let cool to lukewarm.
Crack egg and whisk egg into yeast water mixture. Pour into the melted vegetable shortening mixture.
Pour flour into the large mixing bowl and stir to make a soft dough. Place dough in a vegetable shortening greased bowl, rub vegetable shortening on top of dough.
Cover with a tea towel or plastic wrap. Let dough double in size.
Punch dough down. Store in fridge in a plastic bag or air tight container until ready to use. (up to 1 week)
When ready to make rolls, punch down dough and roll out onto a floured surface until about 1/2 inch thick. Cut out rolls with a floured biscuit cutter or pinch off small sections and roll into a ball, tucking the ends under the roll.
Place rolls on prepared baking sheet that has either been greased or lined with parchment paper with about 1/2 an inch between them.
Brush with melted butter. Let rolls rise in warm place for 1 hour until doubled in size.
Preheat oven to 400F. Bake for about 10 minutes or until rolls are nicely browned. Remove from oven and brush with melted butter again while hot.
Fluffy Homemade Rolls FAQ
1. Why are these rolls also called Refrigerator Rolls? These Fluffy Homemade Rolls are also known as Refrigerator Rolls because once the dough is made it can be stored in the Refrigerator until it’s ready to be used.
2. How long can this Refrigerator Roll dough last in the fridge? This homemade dough can be stored in the fridge for up to 1 week before use.
3. What is the best butter for these Homemade Rolls? I would have to say that my homemade cinnamon butter is the best! Although I do have a recipe for Blackberry Butter that is really good, a homemade Vanilla Pear Butter, a savory Roasted Garlic and Rosemary butter as well as as a recipe for making homemade butter in a mason jar!
Recipes to serve with these homemade rolls:
- The Best Chicken Spaghetti
- Bacon Mushroom Carbonara
- Baked Pizza Mozzarella Stuffed Chicken
- Baked Sausage Marinara Alfredo Pasta
- Muffin Tin Mushroom Meatloaf
- Instant Pot Potato Soup
Fluffy Homemade Rolls
These Fluffy Homemade Rolls are so easy to make and go perfectly with homemade Cinnamon Butter. This vintage recipe was one of my grandmother's recipes and we love it. aka - Refrigerator Rolls If not baking right away, store dough in fridge in a plastic bag or air tight container until ready to use. (up to 1 week)Fluffy Homemade Rolls aka Refrigerator Rolls
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Jo says
Can this recipe be used to make monkey bread?
Angie says
I’m not sure, Jo. I haven’t tried it with monkey bread yet.
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Angie says
Hi Carron,
You can always e-mail me if you need me to send you a recipe to your e-mail. However, feel free to protest my use of intrusive ads if you must. I’m very sorry that you must deal with ads to get all of these recipes for free that I have to pay to post. ALTHOUGH if you click the print button in the recipe card it prints the entire recipe with no ads. I just printed one to double triple check.
Tanti says
This is my go to recipe now for dinner rolls. I even use it for cinnamon rolls. Bless you for sharing!
Angie says
Hi Tanti!! I’m so happy to hear that!!
Kay says
I don’t use crisco so could I use butter?
Angie says
You should be able to do a one-to-one swap but I haven’t tried this recipe with the butter swap so I don’t know exactly how they will turn out.
Whitney says
In the instructions it says add yeast to half a cup of water and leave untouched but on the package of yeast is says to put a teaspoon of sugar in it I was wondering if you just put the east in the water with no sugar
Angie says
Hi Whitney, Nope for this recipe don’t follow the package directions. 🙂 You’ll just follow the recipe. We’ll add the sugar in the second step.
Deborah says
I see milk on the ingredient list but not in the recipe?
Angie says
Hi Deborah, I just reread the entire post and recipe and I don’t see the word, milk, anywhere.
Kimberly says
Yikes! I followed the instructions and after the first rise, punched it down and put it in an airtight container in the fridge. It kept growing and pushed on the snapped on lid until it broke it. Any thoughts on where I might have gone wrong?
Angie says
Doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong. Just sounds like it needed to be in a large container.