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Brioche Bread

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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Proving 2 hrs
Total Time 3 hrs
Course Breakfast
Cuisine French
Servings 8 people

Ingredients
  

  • 4/5 cup milk
  • 3 tsp dry yeast
  • 3 1/3 cups flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 1/8 stick salted butter
  • 1 tbsp orange blossom water

Instructions
 

Activate the yeast

  • Heat the milk at 90ºF.
  • Add a tsp of sugar in the milk, then add the dry yeast. Stir.
  • Wait for 15 minutes.

Prepare the dough

  • Pour the milk and yeast in a bowl.
  • Add the flour, sugar, yolks, orange blossom water.
  • Kneed for 5 minutes, ideally in a stand mixer with the hook.
  • Add the butter and kneed until it is well incorporated.
  • Cover the bowl and let it prove for 1 hour. The volume should double.

Form the brioche

  • Braid the brioche, or separate it into small balls and place them in a pan.
  • Prove the brioche for one more hour.
  • Preheat the oven at 300ºF, convection bake.
  • Bake for 30 minutes.
Keyword Brioche