Rustic Dinner Rolls

Name: Rustic Dinner Rolls
Yield: Makes 16 rolls
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon, water (12 1/2 ounces), room temperature; 1 1/2 teaspoons, instant or rapid-rise yeast; 2 teaspoons, honey; 3 cups plus 1 tablespoon, bread flour (16 1/2 ounces), plus extra for forming rolls; 3 tablespoons, whole-wheat flour (about 1 ounce); 1 1/2 teaspoons, table salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2008

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Make Ahead

Breads

SERVESMakes 16 rolls

TIME1¼ hours, plus 3 hours resting and 1 hour cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To get a flavorful dinner roll recipe with a crisp crust and chewy crumb without a steam-injected oven, we replaced a few tablespoons of bread flour with whole-wheat flour and added honey. For an airy crumb, we determined exactly how much w...

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