I’ve nicknamed these dinner rolls ‘express rolls’.
From start to finish they take 60 minutes or less to make.
What other people call them depends on where they are or where they’re from. To me, they’re bread rolls…
To people from ‘up north’ they’re barms, barm cakes or muffins.
If they were a bit wider and flatter they’d be oven bottoms or oven bottom muffins. If they had a crusty top they’d be cobs.
Other people may say nonsense to all those terms and call them baps or buns.
Whatever you chose to call them, they’re soft and delicious straight out of the oven.
They’re perfect little rolls for having with a bowl of soup, making an afternoon sandwich or as mini-burger buns.
It’s a foolproof way of speeding up the proving process that I’ll definitely use again in the future!
- 525g/18½oz bread flour
- 50g/1¾oz granulated sugar
- 1tbsp dry active yeast
- 1½tsp salt
- 175ml/6 fl oz water
- 155ml/5½ fl oz milk
- 60g/oz butter, diced
- 1½ tsp lemon juice
- 20g/oz butter, melted
- Preheat the oven to 85ºC/180ºF/Gas mark ⅕
- In the bowl of an electric food mixer, gently combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt making a well in the centre
- Add the water, milk and butter to a medium-sized mixing bowl and heat in a microwave on high for about 1 minute
- Stir to partially melt butter and to make sure it's softened
- Pour the milk mixture into the well of the dry mixture and add the lemon juice
- Attach the dough hook before setting the mixer on low, gradually increasing to medium-low
- Mix for about 3-4 minutes until the dough is smooth & elastic
- Cover the bowl with cling film/Saran wrap and allow to rest for 5 minutes
- Grease a 30cm x 23cm (13" x 9") baking tin
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, shape into an evenly level square, about 20cm²
- Cut into 16 equal(ish) portions and shape into 15 balls, using the excess dough from the 16th piece to add to smaller rounds as needed
- Put the dough balls into the prepared baking tin
- Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of the dough with water
- Put the tin in the oven, close the oven door and turn the oven off
- Allow the rolls to rise in the oven for 20 minutes
- Remove the rolls from the oven and preheat to 190ºC/375ºF/Gas mark 5
- Bake in for 15 minutes until the tops have turned a golden brown
- Remove from the oven and brush the tops of the rolls with the melted butter
- Serve straight away or allow to cool before storing in a cool place in an airtight container