The holiday season can get busy, and being able to prepare yeast bread dough ahead of time and freeze it for later use could save time, said Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee.

For years, my holiday standard for bread centered around Brown-N-Serve rolls. We always had them on the table for family get-togethers. They were quick, easy to separate and delicious.

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5. Add the water/yeast mixture and mix as before until all of the ingredients are incorporated and the grit of the salt is dissolved. Continue until the dough forms a wet, sticky and shaggy mass. 6.

Bake the bread until it rises to almost the top of the pan, is set, golden and an instant-read thermometer reads 195 degrees or higher. This takes from 22 to 26 minutes in my oven.

It will never be instant. Yeast is a stubborn dawdler, and you just have to bow to its intransigence. But you don't have to be a slave to it, either.

Published December 20, 2012•Updated on December 24, 2012 at 9:13 am Pandoro is an Italian yeast bread that is quite popular during the holidays. The bread is tall, fluted and somewhat cone ...