Parker Home rolls are an American dinner desk basic with a protracted historical past.
Invented in the 1870s on the Boston Parker House Hotel (the identical lodge that introduced us the Boston Cream Pie), these tender rolls have since made their method onto the listing of New England’s favourite meals. Each crisp and yielding, you’ll discover these rolls on dinner tables 12 months spherical, although this easy-to-make enriched dough is at house in a vacation unfold, too.
Historically, these rolls have a “pocketbook” shape that provides them a buttery center fold. Our recipe forgoes the fold, as an alternative shaping the dough into balls and batch baking them in a 10-inch round cake pan. Brushes with butter each earlier than and after cooking means they’re nonetheless shiny and indulgent.
Whereas it is a comparatively easy recipe that works for dinner anytime, it’s spectacular sufficient for a festive desk.
This recipe seems in Taking Thanksgiving Classics for a Spin. Discover extra Thanksgiving recipes here.
Time
5 hours prep;
quarter-hour baking time
Yield
18 rolls
Tools
stand mixer with dough hook attachment
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9-inch spherical nonstick cake pan
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Substances
9 ounces (262 grams) entire milk
3½ tablespoons (50 grams) water
2 teaspoons (7 grams) energetic dry yeast
4 ¾ cups (590 grams) all-purpose flour
5 teaspoons (20 grams) sugar
1 teaspoon (5 grams) effective sea salt
1 egg
4 tablespoons (60 grams) butter, softened
3 tablespoons (40 grams) butter, melted
1 teaspoon (6 grams) flaky sea salt, for ending
Technique
Within the bowl of a stand mixer, add milk, water, and energetic dry yeast. Let sit for five minutes. 
In a separate bowl, mix the dry elements.
Add the egg and softened butter to the yeast combination, then add the dry elements and blend on low pace utilizing the hook attachment.
Combine for six minutes, till dough is fashioned.
If essential, knead by hand till clean, then cowl and proof till doubled in dimension, about 2 hours.
Butter a nonstick baking pan. After proofing, divide the dough into eighteen 55-gram items.
Type into balls and place within the nonstick pan half an inch aside. Cowl with plastic wrap and proof till doubled in dimension as soon as extra, about 3 hours. 
When the dough is totally proofed, hearth up your oven. Goal for 950°F on the stone baking board inside. (You may verify the temperature shortly and simply utilizing an infrared thermometer.) When the oven is as much as temperature, brush the buns with melted butter, sprinkle with sea salt, and wrap in foil.
Place the pan within the oven and switch off the flames, permitting the residual warmth to prepare dinner the buns for 10 minutes.
Take away the foil and switch the flame again on to get that basic golden brown shade on the highest of the buns. Cook dinner for five extra minutes, turning often to forestall anyone aspect from getting an excessive amount of shade. 
When the rolls are finished, take away them from the oven, brush them with extra melted butter, and revel in.
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