Soft Homemade Dinner Rolls
bakingamoment.com · 2026 · 24 rolls
Against 249 dinner roll recipes
Less salt than 93% of recipes and more egg than 76%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 249 dinner roll recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 93% of recipes: 0.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.5%, about half as much.
- More egg than 76% of recipes: 18% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 14%.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 cup milk ((I used 1%), warm but not hot)≈ 244 g
- 1/2 cup heavy cream, (warm but not hot)≈ 119 g
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter ((half a stick), melted, plus extra for brushing)≈ 57 g
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar≈ 50 g
- 1/4 ounce dry active yeast* ((1 packet))7 g
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour ((you may need slightly more or less flour))≈ 563 g
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 4 g
- 2 eggs ((large))≈ 100 g
flour 563 gbatter 1143 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 249 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid65% · 63rd percentile · median 61%
- Butter10% · 27th percentile · median 14%
- Sugar8.9% · 43rd percentile · median 10%
- Egg18% · 78th percentile · median 10%
- Yeast1.3% · 27th percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.7% · 4th percentile · median 1.5%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 18 to 22 minutes
- median 19 minutes
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