The Ultimate Dinner Roll Recipe
completelydelicious.com · 2025 · 12 rolls
Against 249 dinner roll recipes
Less liquid than 93% of recipes and more egg than 97%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 249 dinner roll recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less liquid than 93% of recipes: 44% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- More egg than 97% of recipes: 36% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%, about 3.5 times as much.
- Less sugar than 80% of recipes: 6.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%.
Ingredients (8)
- ¼ cup unsalted butter≈ 57 g
- ¾ cup milk≈ 183 g
- 3-3 ½ cups bread flour ((exact amount varies))≈ 413 g
- 2 ¼ teaspoons Active-dry yeast (, or instant yeast)≈ 7 g
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 1 large egg (, beaten with 2 tablespoons water, for egg wash)≈ 50 g
flour 413 gbatter 841 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.
- Liquid44% · 6th percentile · median 61%
- Butter14% · 49th percentile · median 14%
- Sugar6.1% · 19th percentile · median 10%
- Egg36% · 98th percentile · median 10%
- Yeast1.7% · 53rd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.5% · 51st percentile · median 1.5%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 20 minutes
- median 19 minutes
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