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Hamburger buns

KathyF's picture
KathyF

Hamburger buns

My daughter asked me to make hamburger and hot dog buns for tomorrow's barbeque and I decided to try my hand at sourdough buns. I have been working on a sourdough sandwich bread and I combined that with my regular hamburger bun recipe and came up with these. They are definitely not the squishy store bought buns but the crust is soft and crumb will hold up to a hamburger and fixin's.

Here is my recipe:

Flour (66% AP; 33% white WW): 100%
Water: 67%
Salt: 2.5%
Shortening: 8.3%
Egg: 16%
Sugar: 5%
Milk Powder: 5%
Starter (@58% hydration): 33%

I mixed everything in the bread machine until it just started to form a windowpane. Put in a container to bulk rise (about 2 hours); stretch and folding 3 times and then put in refrigerator to retard until the next day. Next day I scaled 3 oz. rolls; preshaped and rested for 15 minutes; shaped and placed in pan to rise. Took about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to rise. Really warm in the kitchen today. Brushed with butter or egg wash with sesame seeds. Cooked at 400F with steam until nicely browned.

Now here's hoping everyone likes them tomorrow!

 

Comments

PalwithnoovenP's picture
PalwithnoovenP

I love their look, just lightly enriched and sturdy for those fillings. Depending on the filling, sometimes I like a ton of sesame seeds on my buns and sometimes not at all, it's good that you left some plain. 

Happy baking!

KathyF's picture
KathyF

Thank you! Yeah, not everyone loves sesame seeds, so I always do with and without.

dabrownman's picture
dabrownman

They sure look good enough for the 4th of July BBQ.  Well done and happy baking.  I like to used the water from boiled potatoes for these kinds of recipes and or potato flakes.  Something about potato and buns.

Happy 4th of July

KathyF's picture
KathyF

Why didn't I think of using potato flakes in it? I love potato bread and it would of given a nice texture to the buns. Have to write it in my recipe to remind me to use it next time.

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Isand66

Very nice looking rolls Kathy.

im sure they tasted as good as they look.

Ian