West Virginia · Bread
Pepperoni Rolls
- Intermediate
- 2 h 30 m
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
Leads with richness that coats and comforts.
Ingredients
- 500g bread flour
- 7g instant yeast
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 300ml warm milk
- 55g butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 300g sliced or stick pepperoni
- 150g provolone or mozzarella (optional)
- Melted butter for brushing
Equipment
Sheet pan
The skills inside
Kneading doughProofing: the rise before the ovenEgg wash & the baker’s shine
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Mix and knead the dough 8 min until smooth and soft; rise 1 hour until doubled. 8 min
- Divide into 12 pieces and flatten each into an oval.
- Lay 6-8 slices of pepperoni down the middle, with cheese if using, and roll up tightly, sealing the seam and ends.
- Set seam-side down on a lined tray, cover, and rise 40 min. 40 min
- Bake at 190C for 18-20 min until deep gold. Brush with melted butter as they come out: the orange grease streaks are the badge of honor. 20 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the techniques it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Egg wash & the baker’s shine 34 recipes
- Applied thin and even over every surface that will show, with no bare patches and no ridges or brush lines standing in it.
- Nothing pooled: no wash run down into the seams, collected in the corners, or welded to the tray around the base.
- It has not glued shut what needs to move: layers, scores, and cut edges are still free to open in the heat.
- Baked, the finish is even and glossy across the whole piece and deep gold rather than patchy, with no darker bands where the wash sat heavy.
- The shine is on the outside only: nothing inside the piece tastes of egg.
Where it goes wrong The wash went on heavy and ran into the scores and down to the tray, so the piece baked sealed along its seams, browned unevenly, and carries dark rubbery ridges where the egg collected.
Kneading dough 57 recipes
- The work changed it: what began shaggy and rough is one smooth, cohesive mass, with nothing raggy hanging off it.
- The surface has gone satin and barely tacky, releasing cleanly from hands and board instead of leaving a trail.
- Worked to the point this dough asks for and no further: springy and elastic where structure is wanted, just brought together where tenderness is.
- Torn or cut open, the inside is uniform: no dry streaks, no unmixed pockets, no core of flour that never met the water.
- After its rest it rolls and shapes without snapping back. A dough that fights the pin needed more rest, not more force.
Where it goes wrong Sticking was fought with flour instead of technique or patience, stroke after stroke, until the dough had taken in far more than the formula asked; it turns tight and dry under the hands, and bakes dense however well everything else goes.
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