Brioche bread is a fragrant, soft, delicate tasting typical French pastry, known since the Middle Ages and much loved, even by Queen Marie Antoinette it seems. It is one of the most versatile doughs in the kitchen, perfect for making delicious canapés, French toast for a delicious breakfast or it can be a great appetizer served before dinner.
Brioche Bread Recipe – a great match with sweet and savory!
Brioche Bread goes perfectly with both savory and sweet flavors because of its practically neutral taste (there’s actually a small quantity of sugar in the dough). Take some time for yourself and enjoy the pleasure of having flour in your hands, of creating a dough and watching it grow hour after hour. Brioche Bread is not a recipe for those in a hurry, you need time to knead it and wait for it to rise, but the smell that then invades your home whilst it bakes will be payment enough.
Homemade Brioche Bread Recipe
Ingredients:
3 cups of flour 00
¾ oz brewer's yeast
⅓ cup milk
5 oz butter
1 oz sugar
2 oz water
½ oz salt
2 eggs
1 yolk
Method:
Heat the milk and dissolve the yeast with the sugar. Knead a cup of flour with the yeast and milk in a bowl and leave the dough to rest for an hour.
After this time knead the rest of the flour with butter, 2 oz of water, salt and eggs.
Join up the two doughs and knead them for a long time until they are perfectly blended. Let the new dough rise for another two hours, covered with a cloth.
At this point divide it into two parts and put each one in a buttered plum cake mold and let it rest for another 50 minutes always covered by a cloth until you see it grow beyond the edge of the mold.
Brush the surface of the two loaves gently with a beaten egg yolk and then place in a static oven (preheated) at 350° for 30-35 minutes.