Meanwhile place buttermilk, egg, butter and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add yeast mixture when activated and stir to combine. With the kneading hook, slowly add 3 ½ cups of the flour. Mix until soft dough forms, slowly adding an additional ¼ cup flour as necessary to form soft dough that pulls away from sides of bowl. This will take about 10 minutes.
* ~ There are lots of fun ways to shape dinner rolls and lots of techniques available online. I love to use a couple different shapes for a fun looking bread basket. Here are the ones I used this time:
- for perfectly shaped round dinner rolls, Fine Cooking has a great tutorial here. Proceed as directed above for second rise and baking.
- for the fun looking knotted dinner rolls check out this YouTube tutorial. Proceed as directed above for second rise and baking.
- for the spiral, muffin type rolls, roll the dough into a large rectangle, spread with two tablespoons of butter and roll up, jelly roll fashion. Pinch the edge to seal, then cut into 16 equal pieces. Grease 16 muffin pan cups with butter and place a roll in each cup. Proceed as directed above for second rise and baking.