What is Parker House Roll?

Parker House Roll is a delicious, fluffy yeast bun developed by a hotel and restaurant Parker House in the 19th century. Now known as Omni Parker House and is still located in Boston in Massachusetts, the restaurant is considered one of the most luxurious dining facilities in the US and invented more than one known recipe. Parker House has also invented a Boston cream cake that has pleased dessert lovers for decades. Rolls can be oval or semi -crown shaped. When they are round, they look slightly like a 3-D Pac man, from a famous video game, because they have a small opening in their middle, which somewhat resembles the mouth. Oval rollers are also popular, although not standard, you can find sesame or poppy seeds today. Once the rolls are shaped, they can rise before baking, so the final result is an inflated, soft role that easily opened and butter because of its center.

tYpic ingredients in Parker House Roll are rich. White flour is preferred, even if you can replace some whole grains or wheat with a more heartfelt and healthier alternative. Rolls also have a butter base, and when they are shaped, both sides of the circle can be fastened with melted butter to help the sides hold. Typical directions for shaping cylinders include dough rolling out to about 0.5 inch (1.27 cm) thickness, its cutting on the wheels (wheel size varies) and then the composition with each wheel.

Cheat for this recipe is to create rolls manually instead of cutting them out. This can result in less uniform role of Parker House, but they are still rich and tasty for their many fans. Some people simply form an oval Roll manually and add a drop to create a Parker House Roll.

Parker House Roll has a melt in the quality of the mouth, thanks to the high content of butter and recipes can be found in many cookbooks and on various websitesh. As a source of food are fattening, made of white flour and are not particularly nutritional. Yet they are pleasant as occasional treatment, or you can convert the recipe to create healthier roles that have shape, but not the content of calories of traditional recipes.