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If you have a hard time rolling up dough for, say, cinnamon rolls or similar items, here’s a quick and easy tool to simplify the task—a nice, clean tea towel.

Here’s how it works for a soft dough: Smooth the towel out on your countertop and sprinkle it lightly with flour. Roll dough out to rectangle of desired thickness. (When you’re rolling out the dough, you can hold the towel in place with your hips against the countertop.) Top with the filling you’re using. Turn towel/dough so that the long edge of the rectangle is parallel to the counter’s edge.

Gently lift towel along one long edge of dough. The dough will roll over onto itself, and you’ll have a perfectly rolled log. You might have to give it a little guidance now and then, but it will behave must more agreeably than if you’re trying to roll the dough up with your fingers and a spatula—or any other method I know of.