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Recipes => Recipes => Baker's Corner => Topic started by: 1Bigg_ER on August 03, 2014, 08:23:18 PM
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OK, my bread is cross between brioche and regular bread. My kids love it, my visitors leave with a fresh loaf.
Here's what you'll need for one loaf:
A Mason jar filled with ice and your choice of liquor.
15 ounces of bread flour (All purpose flour works just as well )
1 Cup milk (you can use water)
3 tablespoons sugar
1 packet active dry yeast. Or 2 1/2 teaspoons if you buy in jars.
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon fine salt or 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt.
Directions:
Pour liquor into the mason jar and take a sip. Keep it close by.
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Now mix sugar and milk, heat that in the microwave to about 120 degrees. Don't have to be exact, just have it warm.
Take another sip of your liquor.
Whisk the yeast with the milk and let it get bubbly. About 10 to 15 minutes. Meanwhile mix the salt, butter and egg yolk. Reserve the egg white.
Once the yeast is happy, dump in the butter mixture and mix well.
This is all happening in a bowl. Gradually add 10 ounces (2 cups) to the bowl and mix. Dump the remaining flour on a working surface i.e. cutting board, clean table top etc. Dump the dough on the surface and start kneading, adding flour as needed. You want a soft, slightly sticky but still workable dough. Once you get to that stop adding flour and knead the dough until smooth. You'll feel it in your heart when it's ready.
Form a ball and place it in a buttered bowl, cover with plastic wrap and towel and let it rise to about double in size. This depends on how warm your kitchen is. I normally turn my oven light on and place the bowl in there. Takes about an hour.
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Once it doubles in size, form into a loaf and place in a buttered loaf pan. Butter it if it's not nonstick.
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Cover with a plastic wrap and a towel, let it rise about an inch higher. Meanwhile, heat your oven to 350 degrees.
At this point your liquor should be halfway gone.
When the oven is ready, brush the top of the loaf with the beaten egg whites leftover from the egg yolk.
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Place in oven and bake for 15 minutes, then turn the pan around to promote even browning. Bake an additional 15 minutes and start checking for doneness. You can use an instant thermometer, read 200 degree. You can poke it, bread won't collapse. Or tap the top and it's done when it sounds hollow.
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Now the whole house will smell a special kind of fantastic. Please restrain yourself from immediately slicing the bread. Let it cool before slicing.
It's really easy to put together. Active time is 15 minutes.
Please note that this bread will keep at room temperature for a week. But as you can see I bake two loaves because it gets devoured within 2 days.
If you make 2 loaves double the ingredients EXCEPT YEAST! USE THE SAME YEAST AMOUNT FOR 2 LOAVES.
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Very nice looking bread. Looks like they came out perfect
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I use the same recipe for my hamburger buns. Makes 8 buns, half every ingredient, including yeast but keep one egg yolk for 4 soft hamburger buns. I hate to buy a bag of buns when I only need 4.
NOTE: let the buns rise after shaping them. Bake at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes
So you'll let the dough rise, then shape into rolls then let the rolls rise before baking.
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Very nice looking bread. Looks like they came out perfect
Thank you Smoke! I haven't bought bread in years. I thought I'd share with folks here.
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Nothing like fresh - home made bread to complete the picture of a fine meal. Beautiful job. It looks like you are no amateur.
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That looks GREAT!!! I'll bet the smell of baking that bread is fantastic also.
Art
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Nothing like fresh - home made bread to complete the picture of a fine meal. Beautiful job. It looks like you are no amateur.
Oh no Tee, I know my way around the kitchen but I am still an amateur. I have a lot to learn, I just refuse you buy certain things already made, like bread.
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That looks GREAT!!! I'll bet the smell of baking that bread is fantastic also.
Art
Thank you Art! That smell of fresh bread can get a man in a whole lotta trouble.
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When I was a kid in Abilene....there was a Mead's Bread Bakery. The smell coming from that place would make me start twitching' and itching' like an addict! :D
They had tours all of the time...Me and a buddy would ride our bicycles over to the bakery in the summer, and sneak our into a tour group. At the end of the tour - they gave you a mini-loaf of hot fresh out of the oven white bread - and all of the ice cold milk and butter you want.
Shame they finally caught onto us after about 30 trips in there one summer.... ;D 8)
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Beautiful loaves. :P
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HAHAHA! Teesquare deserved to be got! 30 trips in one summer?!
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That has got to be the finest looking loaves of bread I have ever seen, very nice. ;)
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Beautiful bread!
And I am really digging the egg on the burger ;)
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That is some fine looking bread. I can smell it here in NC.
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That has got to be the finest looking loaves of bread I have ever seen, very nice. ;)
You're too kind, thank you!
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Beautiful bread!
And I am really digging the egg on the burger ;)
Thank you Muebe!
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Great bread. I usually can't wait for it to cool. Funny how many recipes lately have alcohol that almost goes in it.
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Very nice, bookmarked this one.
Thanks!
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HAHAHA! Teesquare deserved to be got! 30 trips in one summer?!
Oh yeah....Hey - it was payback for me having to live downwind of that bakery....There is nothing as salivating for me as baking bread.... ;)
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Great bread. I usually can't wait for it to cool. Funny how many recipes lately have alcohol that almost goes in it.
LOL!!
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I'd like to visit and get a loaf of that!!!! Very Nice bread!!! Don
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that's some of the nicest looking bread I have ever seen. do you ship?
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Fantastic looking bread and hamburger buns!
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That is great looking bread and hamburger buns - printed and will be making it. Thanks!
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Great looking bread. We will be trying this soon. Do you use salted or unsalted butter?
Mike
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Got a cut shot? Would like to see the crumb. It does look very goof!
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Great looking bread. We will be trying this soon. Do you use salted or unsalted butter?
Mike
I use Kerrygold salted butter, even in cakes.
I really can't tell the difference in finished goods so I just get it from Costco.
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Got a cut shot? Would like to see the crumb. It does look very goof!
I sure will!!
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that's some of the nicest looking bread I have ever seen. do you ship?
Ship me your secret to ribs and I'll ship you a loaf
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Thanks. That looks perfect. Gonna make this......soon
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I use the same recipe for my hamburger buns. Makes 8 buns, half every ingredient, including yeast but keep one egg yolk for 4 soft hamburger buns. I hate to buy a bag of buns when I only need 4.
I love the orange yolk, so much better than the yellow ones!
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I don't know how I missed this one first time it went around but I had to bookmark it to try when we get home, that is some amazing looking bread and buns. Can't wait to try it out.
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I too missed this earlier. Bookmarked now and will try later. The loaves sure look good, and I like the buns.
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It's a semi brioche recipe. I make 4 loaves a week! My wife is on a low carb diet except for this bread. LOL
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Dang, that burger with the egg on it was killer
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Dang, that burger with the egg on it was killer
I agree, that is one mouth watering looking burger. ;)
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Great bread. I usually can't wait for it to cool. Funny how many recipes lately have alcohol that almost goes in it.
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