Sourdough Buttermilk Dinner Rolls

This was one of those fortunate accidents.  I suppose this is how many new recipes are made.

I have a couple friends who also like to experiment with sour dough recipes.

One friend, Gretchen, gave me some 130 year old sour dough starter and it is such a good one.  She got it about 40 years ago from a former employer when she was in college and working at a family owned cafe.  It was handed down by the cafe owners family for generations.

Another friend gave me this recipe for Buttermilk Biscuits saying they were experimenting with adding sour dough starter to the mix in varying amounts.

2 cups plus 2.5 tablespoons all purpose, unbleached white flour
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar,  (I substituted raw honey)
1 tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons cold butter  (oops forgot this part)
2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk
1 farm fresh egg

My addition:
1 1/3 cup room temperature sourdough starter which has been left out of the fridge and fed each day for 5 days.  Last feeding was one day ago.  I also have been using it for sour dough pancakes to keep it used up.  That wonderful recipe will be posted later.

Mixed dough ingredients together at noon and let it sit in a bowl to raise at room temp.  At 4 P.M. I put the dough into the heart shaped Demarle tray and let sit in the oven with the light on for warmth until 6:30.  Then I turned the oven on to 350 degrees and baked 20 minutes.  Perfection...unless you were expecting biscuits.

I set out to make the buttermilk biscuit recipe and I was expecting company that night...the very company who had given me the recipe.  We were looking over the recipe just before dinner. The biscuits were almost done.  That's when I realized I forgot the cold butter.  How could I do that?

Well whatever, it is what it is and dinner is almost ready.

We sat down to eat and we were so surprised at how good they were.  They were like a chewy gourmet french bread.  Wow!  That was Monday...this is Friday.  I made them again tonight and this time took photos.

I will go back to this recipe lots and lots.

I used up the rest of the dough in the Demarle Hamburger Bun Tray.