Old-School Dinner Rolls
smittenkitchen.com · Servings: Makes 12 large or 20 small dinner rolls
Against 249 dinner roll recipes
Close to the middle of 249 dinner roll recipes on every ingredient.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 249 dinner roll recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Liquid in the middle half of recipes: 52% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 61%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 17% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 14%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup (235 grams) warm water235 g
- 2 tablespoons (30 grams) unsalted butter, cold is fine, diced small, plus 3 tablespoons (45 grams) salted or unsalted, melted75 g
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar50 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt (I used Diamond brand; use half of another)≈ 6 g
- 1 1/4-ounce (2 1/4 teaspoons or 7 grams) packet instant yeast7 g
- 3 1/2 cups (455 grams) all-purpose flour455 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Oil, for the bowln/a
- Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling (optional)n/a
flour 455 gbatter 878 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.
- Liquid52% · 23rd percentile · median 61%
- Butter17% · 64th percentile · median 14%
- Sugar11% · 63rd percentile · median 10%
- Egg11% · 55th percentile · median 10%
- Yeast1.5% · 43rd percentile · median 1.6%
- Salt1.3% · 37th percentile · median 1.5%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 375°F
- Time
- not stated
- median 19 minutes
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