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, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

Make Ahead

Breads

Turning flour, water, and yeast into crusty, airy rolls is one of the hardest bits of kitchen wizardry around. We wanted to make the process foolproof.

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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