Directions
Can you resist of this fluffy brioche bread soft as cotton, with a dense structure on the inside and wonderful mahaleb aroma, and a sweet taste of golden raisins and cranberries.
After trying many recipes, this recipe of my mother is one of the most successful recipes that always hits the spot, with two dough rising from half an hour before baking.
Ideal for the Christmas table, which you can adjust and prepare in three different buns. The dough can be shaped into two, three, four or six braids depending on the volume of the bread you want to achieve.
Follow all the details below.
Ingredients :
1 kg of flour
500 ml of milk
3 eggs
7 grams of dry yeast
5 grams of salt
50 ml oil
75 grams of sugar/85 grams of honey
2 tablespoons of ground Mahaleb
100 grams of golden raisins and cranberry mix
Preparation
In a bowl, add 100 ml of lukewarm milk, a spoonful of sugar and dry yeast.
Leave it for ten minutes to activate the yeast and create bubbles. Then add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl except the flour, or 400 ml of lukewarm milk, three eggs, salt, sugar or (optionally you can replace the sugar with honey), oil, mahaleb as a spice for a nice aroma if you have it or you can add vanilla extract as a substitute if you don’t have any.
You can prepare the dough with a stand mixer or knead the dough with your hands, the choice is yours.
The flour is added gradually, not all at once and the dough should be kneaded nicely to a smooth dough. If you knead it with a stand mixer, about 10 minutes are enough or until the dough comes off the walls of the bowl, or if you knead it with your hands, you need 10 to 15 minutes. After the dough is kneaded, placed in a bowl with oil and covered with foil to rise double of his size.
At warm room temperature it takes 30 to 45 minutes depending on the temperature. After the first rise, knead the dough briefly on a coated surface with oil, it is enough to turn it briefly a few times and return it to the bowl to rise a second time.
After the second rising, divide the dough into two parts and shape as you prefer. You can also shape it as twisted bread because the dough is so fluffy, also you can add mix of golden raisins and currants. They will give a nice taste and an additional nice appearance when cutting the bread.
After shaping, immediately transfer them to a pan covered with baking paper and let them rise nicely for half an hour to an hour.
Before baking, coat the dough with egg yolk mixed with a teaspoon of milk.
Bake at 180 degrees in a heated oven for 20 to 30 minutes.
Such a wonderful bread as breakfast with butter, tea, jam, marmalade or honey.
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