Buns for Hamburgers & Hot Dogs

Name: Buns for Hamburgers & Hot Dogs
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 3 h 6 min
Yield: Makes 10 hamburger buns or 10 hot dog buns
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1½ tablespoons milk; sesame seeds (optional); 145 ml (4¾ fl oz) water; 50 g (1¾ oz) butter; 185 ml (6 fl oz/¾ cup) milk; 4 egg yolks; 2 teaspoons salt; 3 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; 2 teaspoons dried yeast; 680 g (1 lb 8 oz) strong flour

Preparation info

Makes
10
hamburger buns

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
3 hr 30

Appears in

New York Cult Recipes

By Marc Grossman

Published 2013

About

For a great burger or a hot dog, the bun is at least as important as what you put in it. The real test for a bun is being good enough to eat by itself. These are.

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

680 g (1 lb 8 oz) strong flour
2

Method

The Dough

Combine all the dry ingredients. Heat the water and butter in a saucepan until the butter is melted. Remove from the heat and add the milk. Check the temperature of the mixture with a thermometer — it needs to be 49–55°C (120–130°F). Combine the two mixtures together. Start kneading and add the egg yolks one at a time, kneading well after each add