Rustic Dinner Rolls

Name: Rustic Dinner Rolls
Yield: Makes 16 rolls
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon, water (12 1/2 ounces/354 grams), 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/468 grams), plus extra for forming rolls; 3 tablespoons, whole-wheat flour (about 1 ounce/28 grams); 1 1/2 teaspoons, table salt

Desserts or Baked Goods
Make Ahead
Breads

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV

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.

SERVES Makes 16 rolls

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 3 hours resting and 1 hour cooling

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