Where Are My Teeth?

Almost perfect cinnamon rolls

This should make it clear why people who like really exact recipes hate me:

1. Make 1:4 sugar syrup by putting a short quarter-cup of sugar in a measuring cup and adding near-boiling water from the hot tap till you reach 1 cup.
2. Pour about 5-1/2 ounces of the syrup into the hummingbird feeder.
3. Pour the rest of the syrup over about 2-3 cups of instant oatmeal (whatever was left in the big container). Rinse measuring cup by filling twice with water from the hot tap and pouringthat over the oatmeal.
4. Leave bowl covered at room temperature for 4 hours while you go to burlington and the grocery store and cook some chicken stock for the rice you're having for lunch.
5. Add a couple of shakes of kosher salt (between a teaspoon and a tablespoon) and put the oatmeal in a mixing bowl.
6. Add about two cups of all-purpuse flour and 1/3 cup gluten along with about 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 tablespoon instant yeast, and mix into a slack dough.
7. Add more flour until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl, then add a few slivers of butter so it won't stick while it rises.
8. Let rise covered about 2-1/2 hours or until roughly doubled.
9. Punch down and roll out on largest available Silpat, adding flour to keep from sticking.
10. Mix up the remaining cup and a half of King Arthur Cinnamon Filling, with a generous 6-7 tablespoons of water. Spread on dough.
11. Roll up across the short dimension and cut into disks about an inch and a half thick, placing in a 9x12 pan previosuly sprayed with baking release goop or otherwise buttered.
12. Second rise about an hour and a half. Preheat oven to 350
13. Cook for 20 minutes, read the instructions on the back of the filling bag, put some aluminum foil over the pan and cook for another 20 minutes.
14. Remove from oven and let cool, loosely covered.
15. Did I mention that we seem to have a new hummingbird at the feeder? We have one ruby throat and one plain.