Recipe Background
Freshly baked delights from the old world! Old World Pull-Apart Buns are the very definition of buttery, pillowy rolls, the kind you can imagine piled high next to creamy soups or home-grilled steak dinners. Brushed with even more butter (always a good idea), Old World Pull-Apart Buns might just distract you from finishing the main course. Thank goodness they make enough for everyone. Who knew pull-apart rolls could bring people together?
Freshly baked delights from the old world! Old World Pull-Apart Buns are the very definition of buttery, pillowy rolls, the kind you can imagine piled high next to creamy soups or home-grilled steak dinners. Brushed with even more butter (always a good idea), Old World Pull-Apart Buns might just distract you from finishing the main course. Thank goodness they make enough for everyone. Who knew pull-apart rolls could bring people together?
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 3 tablespoons nonfat dry milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 cup butter softened, plus more, melted, for brushing on top
- 2/3 cup water lukewarm
- 1/2 cup milk lukewarm
Directions
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, yeast, dry milk, sugar, salt, softened butter, water, and milk. Stir until you have a soft dough.
- Knead the dough using your hands, a stand mixer, or a bread machine on the dough cycle, until the dough is soft and smooth.
- Oil a bowl.
- Set the dough in the oiled bowl.
- Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and let it rise until it's doubled in size, about 1 hour.
- Gently deflate the dough by knocking it down with your hands.
- Lightly flour a work surface.
- Turn the dough out onto the prepared surface.
- Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces.
- Round each piece into a smooth ball.
- Lightly grease two 8-inch or 9-inch cake pans.
- Arrange 8 buns in each pan.
- Cover the pans and allow the buns to rise until they're crowded against each other and puffy, about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Uncover the buns.
- Bake until golden brown on top and until the edges of the center bun in each pan spring back lightly when touched, about 20-24 minutes.
- Transfer the buns from the oven.
- Brush lightly with the melted butter.
- Serve warm.
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