Sourdough Dinner Rolls
biggerbolderbaking.com · 2025 · 12 rolls
Against 249 dinner roll recipes
No yeast, unlike 97% of recipes and more sugar than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 249 dinner roll recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No yeast at all, where 97% of recipes use some (most of those 1.3 to 2.2% of the flour weight).
- More sugar than 89% of recipes: 16% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%.
- No egg at all, where 75% of recipes use some (most of those 10 to 19% of the flour weight).
- Less liquid than 82% of recipes: 50% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
Ingredients (7)
- 2 ½ cups (12 ½ oz/355 g) all-purpose flour355 g
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) granulated sugar57 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- ¾ cup (6 fl oz/180 ml) lukewarm water≈ 178 g
- ½ cup (4 oz/115 g) active sourdough starter115 g
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) butter, melted57 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Egg washn/a
flour 355 gbatter 765 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.
- Liquid50% · 17th percentile · median 61%
- Butter16% · 62nd percentile · median 14%
- Sugar16% · 90th percentile · median 10%
- Egg0% · 12th percentile · median 10%
- Yeast0% · 1st percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt0.8% · 9th percentile · median 1.5%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 19 minutes
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