Recipe for rolls:
6 cups flour
2.5 cups hot/warm water
0.5 cup oil
1 package yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
Mix all dry ingredients (including yeast) together. Add the oil in the center, put the water in with the oil, and mix quickly; then knead. It's better to add too much water than too much flour at the beginning, by the way (using a little more water than mentioned here might actually be good, but I'm not sure off-hand).
Let it rise once, as long as you feel like. Pound it down, knead, and form into balls.
Put them in a cake pan, or on a cookie sheet (depending on whether you want them to stick together in bunches like rolls often do), forming each roll about half the size of a fist, or so (really, they can be as big as you want).
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cook for twenty to thirty minutes, depending on how large they are (thirty to be safe).
This recipe also works for loaf bread (like French bread) and pizza crust; however, if you make it as a loaf, it will be difficult to cut in slices (ripping and tearing would be best, I think).
If you take out the yeast and the sugar, add some baking powder (not baking soda), and mayhap some more salt (and perhaps a little more water), this works as a nice biscuit recipe for biscuits for biscuits and gravy (they'll be crumbly biscuits, and not the sort with layers, though, but there won't be any trans fats, and they'll still taste good).
