Make-Way-Ahead Dinner Rolls

Name: Make-Way-Ahead Dinner Rolls
Yield: Makes 16 rolls
Ingredients: ½ cup, water; 3 tablespoons, bread flour; 3/4 cup, milk, chilled; 2⅔ cups (14⅔ ounces), bread flour; 1 , large egg; 2 teaspoons, instant or rapid-rise yeast; 2 tablespoons, sugar; 1¼ teaspoons, table salt; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; , Vegetable oil spray

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2022

Side Dishes

Make Ahead

Breads

With this brown-and-serve recipe, you’ll never be more than 15 minutes away from the warm comforts of fluffy homemade bread.

SERVESMakes 16 rolls

TIME2 hours, plus 3 to 3¼ hours rising, cooling, and freezing

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Warm dinner rolls make even the simplest meal special, but baking fresh bread on demand isn’t practical. Brown-and-serve rolls—parbaked buns that can go from the freezer to the oven to the plate in less than 15 minutes—are the solution. Our...

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