AuthorWith their delicate crumb and buttery-glazed tops, Parker Home rolls did not want Instagram to turn into a sensation. Since their debut within the 1870s, at Boston’s Parker Home Lodge, they’ve served as breadbasket rolls, as nice a contribution to the repertoire of baked items because the cronut greater than 100 years later.
I discuss concerning the Parker Home films within the newest installment of my YouTube present, “Shortcut vs. Showstopper.” Within the episode, I baked two variations of the rolls, one totally from scratch and a better one utilizing ready pizza dough.
Each recipes are wonderful, and every ensuing batch is a enjoyment of its personal manner.
The problem for the shortened model was to make the lean pizza dough appear like it was enriched with milk and eggs. By nature, pizza dough desires to puff up within the oven, creating giant bubbles within the crust that burn, flip black, and turn into crispy within the excessive warmth. Parker Home rolls ought to have a finer, cake-like crumb with out the air pockets you anticipate in a pizza crust. The rolls also needs to be buttery, which pizza dough naturally is not.
To compensate, I launched as a lot butter into the dough as doable, including it in three phases. I unfold a number of the dough within the middle of the dough whereas shaping it into muffins, then unfold some on prime earlier than baking and did it once more after baking. Then, to take care of a crispy crust after baking, I lined the pan with aluminum foil to permit the rolls to steam whereas they cooled, which softened them.
They end up remarkably tender and completely buttery – in half the time of the basic recipe and with out having to make use of yeast.
For traditional rolls, I examined a number of recipes, and got here up with one which integrated immediate potato chips within the dough. Including potatoes — flakes, flour, or mashed potatoes — to bread dough is an age-old technique of constructing it moist and elastic.
I’ve modified this primary recipe by seasoning the butter with black pepper and crunchy Demerara sugar. The seasoned butter gave the rolls a candy, spicy style, and the sugar caramelized and have become candy-like wherever it met the steel of the pan. (You too can use the identical seasoned butter for shortcut rolls.)
Wealthy however not heavy, with a fragile flavour, this excellent recipe produced one of the best Parker Home rolls I’ve ever had, particularly when served heat from the oven.
Any of those recipes can be a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving desk. In case you have any leftovers, save them to make one of the best, most scrumptious turkey sandwiches the subsequent day.