Dinner Rolls Lab249 recipes

Dinner Rolls Lab · Calculator

Design your own dinner rolls

The sliders start at the typical batch: the median of 249 recipes for each ingredient, in grams per 100 g of flour. Move any of them within the range that 90% of recipes use (the 5th to the 95th percentile) and the grams update, with where your choice sits among the recipes and what that ingredient does.

This scales ratios; it is not a tested recipe. Each ingredient moves on its own against the flour, and a combination no recipe uses may not bake the way you expect. For the method, pan and oven, follow the real recipes nearest your numbers.

Flour

500 g, about 4 cups, makes one typical batch.

Start from a recipe

Grams per 100 g of flour

  1. 305 g · 61%about 1 1/4 cups

    In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 50% less.

    Mostly milk, which makes the soft, tender crumb dinner rolls are known for.

  2. 70 g · 14%about 1/3 cup

    In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 49% less.

    Butter makes the rolls rich and pull-apart soft.

  3. 50 g · 10%about 1/4 cup

    In the middle: 44% of recipes use more, 49% less.

    Sugar or honey, more than in a sandwich loaf; Hawaiian-style rolls sit at the top.

  4. 50 g · 10%about 1 large egg

    In the middle: 48% of recipes use more, 42% less.

    An egg enriches the dough and gives a golden crumb.

  5. 8 g · 1.6%

    In the middle: 48% of recipes use more, 46% less.

    Quick recipes use a lot of yeast for a one-hour roll.

  6. 8 g · 1.5%

    In the middle: 44% of recipes use more, 46% less.

    Around 1.5 to 2% of the flour.

Your dinner rolls

Your dinner rolls in grams, with approximate volumes
IngredientGrams
Flour500 gabout 4 cups
Liquidmilk, buttermilk, yogurt, cream and water305 gabout 1 1/4 cups
Butterbutter, oil and shortening70 gabout 1/3 cup
Sugarwhite sugar, brown sugar, honey and syrups50 gabout 1/4 cup
Eggwhole eggs, yolks and whites50 gabout 1 large egg
Yeast8 g
Salt8 g
Total991 g

991 g in all from 500 g of flour, counting only the groups above.

Closest real recipe: Heavenly Crescent Rolls (3 Ways) (cleobuttera.com).

BakeThe median of 216 recipes is 375°F (190°C), most for 14 to 24 minutes at their own size. A bigger or smaller batch, or a different pan, changes the time.

The 3 real recipes nearest your numbers

Measured on liquid, butter, sugar, egg, yeast and salt at once. These are published, tested recipes: follow one for its method, pan and timing, or load its percentages and adjust from there.

  1. 1

    Heavenly Crescent Rolls (3 Ways) · cleobuttera.com

    liquid 62% · butter 13% · sugar 11% · egg 7.6% · yeast 1.1% · salt 1.6%

  2. 2

    Homemade Dinner Roll Recipe · feelgoodfoodie.net

    liquid 56% · butter 12% · sugar 9.6% · egg 11% · yeast 2.1% · salt 1.4%

  3. 3

    Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe · sallysbakingaddiction.com

    liquid 63% · butter 14% · sugar 6.4% · egg 13% · yeast 1.8% · salt 1.5%

How the calculator works

Every recipe is reduced to baker's percentages: grams of each ingredient group per 100 g of flour. The starting point is the median of all 249 recipes for each group separately, so no single recipe is exactly the starting batch. Grams are your flour weight times each percentage, rounded to the nearest 5 g above 50 g and the nearest gram or half gram below.

“More than 80% of recipes” counts the recipes with strictly less of that ingredient per gram of flour. The nearest recipes are measured on every ingredient at once, each scaled by how much recipes vary on it, so a wide-ranging ingredient does not outweigh a narrow one.

Only the groups listed are counted. Vanilla, spices, mix-ins and toppings are left out unless they have their own slider. Volumes are approximate: flour at 125 g a cup, sugar 200 g, butter or oil 225 g, milk and other liquids 240 g, a large egg 50 g.