Monday, May 2, 2011

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE AND BRAIDED WHITE LOAF




For me Braided White Loaf is weekend. Saturday, Sunday morning breakfast with family. The warm bread with some butter and a cup of tea. It's heaven.
And it is so easy to do. You just need some time and love :).


WHAT YOU NEED IS:

Time&Love
250ml Milk
20g fresh yeast
75g sugar
1 Egg
1,5tsp Sea Salt
500g Flour
75g Butter

GOOD MUSIC TO LISTEN TO WHILE COOKING:
Beatles: All you need is love"

In a mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in (finger) warm milk and sugar. Beat the egg and put 3 tbsp in the fridge. Add the rest of the egg, salt and flour to the milk and beat on low speed for 3 minutes. Then on high speed for 5 minutes. On the low speed add butter cubes one after another to the dough.

Cover and let rise 1 hour in a warm place.

Knead for 5 minutes and divide the dough in 3 parts. Cover and let rise for 10 minutes.

Roll the 3 dough parts in 3 ropes. Braid the ropes, cover with kitchen towel and let rise for 45 minutes.

Brush the loaf with beated cold egg. Bake at 200 degrees for 25 minutes.

Anita from Bookmark this recipe baked my bread and put some comments and a picture on her blog. Check it out.

Enjoy it :)




9 comments:

  1. This bread is soooo incredibly good, we ate it this morning for breakfast. It was still just as tender as yesterday, yum. Thank you so much!

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  2. I have to try this bread. It looks so good. Thanks for sharing. Great photos, great blog.

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  3. Anita, Thank you so much. I hope you will like it. Let me know :)

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  4. ohhh I can't wait anymore. The bread is in the oven. I set the timer and now I enjoy a glass of wine until the bread is ready. It smells good in the kitchen already :-)

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  5. Wonderful bread! I cheat and use my kitchenaid for the mixing :-) The bread turned out beautiful and and so delicious.The problem with homemade bread is that half of it is gone before it cools. Can't wait to make it again. I will post it on my blog and I will put some photos if you want to see it. Thank you for the recipe!
    http://recipewithpictures.blogspot.com/

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  6. Anita, thank you. I am using kitcheaid aswell. Your bread looks really nice :P

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  7. Oh I love this bread, it is very close to my Baba's (grandmom) braid. We had to have it every Christmas and Easter growing up, now my children have the same tradition. It makes WONDERFUL stuffed french toast.....http://www.thesaucygourmet.net/2009/12/childhood-memorychristmas-bread-and.html

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    1. It is my favorite bread. Great to have some traditions like that.

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