Sourdough Rolls
This is just a quick post, really. Work has been nutso lately and I have not made much sourdough bread as a result. Well this past weekend, I decided to take back my weekend and make bread!
When we lived in Germany fresh rolls from the bakery around the corner and strong coffee was our favorite breakfast. So I made sourdough rolls and lots of strong coffee for breakfast on Saturday. As always, with sourdough, you do the bulk of the work the day before. I use the same sourdough recipe as I’ve been using the last few months. But instead of shaping the dough into loaves, I’ve been dividing the dough into approximately 3 ounce portions and making rolls.
The key is to give the rolls enough shape and structure while they proof. This was my biggest challenge. The first sets tasted great but they looked like hockey pucks. And the look affects the mouth feel somehow.
I finally had a moment of inspiration — muffin tins! I lined my muffin tin with the requisite floured cloth and placed the rounded dough into the little muffin spots. Ta-dah! It worked perfectly.
The rolls look great and taste great.
Leave the rolls in the muffin tin all the way to the very end. When you would normally put the loaves on the oven peel, that’s when you take the rolls out of the tin. They come out easily, but the floured cloth helps, for sure. Just make sure that you don’t clump the flour.
If you do, you’ll have floury rolls and that is no fun. So, really just a light dusting of flour on the cloth.
Bake them according to the instructions and then, in about 20 minutes, you can be eating fresh sourdough rolls that look professional!
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I’ve been cooking with sourdough for almost 10 years now. I make sourdough pie crust, chocolate chip cookie, oatmeal cookies, chocolate cake, 3 different kinds of muffins, biscuits, pizza crust. not much I don’t do without sourdough. the only thing I see on your site about sourdough is bread. Which is really good I make it all the time.
my sourdough recipe for bread doesn’t take up much time. a few hours that’s it. I don’t understand why it would take you the day before to make it. !!! My starter is almost 10 years old. I guess I don’t understand that why it takes so long..?