Fluffy Dinner Rolls

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2016

We thought the classic light, tender American dinner roll couldn’t get any better. Then we tried a cutting-edge baking technique called tangzhong.

SERVES Makes 12 rolls

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 1¾ hours resting and 20 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Moist, fluffy American dinner rolls are great when fresh but quickly lose those qualities as they sit. We took a classic dinner roll recipe and applied a bread-making method commonly called by its Chinese name, tangzhong (though it originat...

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