Milk Bread Recipe
Prep Time:
3 hours
Cook Time:
25 minutes
Servings:
4 Servings
Ingredients
  • 2 2/3 cups plus 2 TBSP bread flour
  • 1/2 cup plus 2 TBSP milk
  • 3 TBSP Water
  • 1 TBSP instant yeast
  • 1/4 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup butter
Directions
  1. Add the flour to a small saucepan and whisk in the water and milk, then cook, stirring over medium-low heat, until the paste is thick and the whisk leaves a clean spot in the pan when it's scraped on the bottom.
  2. Scrape starter paste into a bowl and set aside to cool.
  3. Melt the butter and then stir the milk into it.
  4. Once milk and butter cool, add the active dry yeast to the mixture and stir to combine.
  5. Put the dry ingredients into the bowl of a stand mixer.
  6. When the starter paste is cool, put it in the mixer bowl along with the milk, butter, yeast mixture, and egg.
  7. Mix and knead until a smooth shiny dough forms.
  8. Lightly grease a bowl, put the dough in, turn it to cover with oil.
  9. Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for 90 minutes or so.
  10. Grease a 9" by 5" loaf pan.
  11. Gently press the air out of the dough and divide it into quarters.
  12. Take one quarter of the dough and pat it into a three-inch by five-inch rectangle
  13. Fold both sides of the shorter ends of the dough in toward the middle and press it out into a rectangle again.
  14. Roll the flat piece up into a roughly rectangular shape once again and place it in the loaf pan.
  15. Repeat with the remaining quarters if dough.
  16. Cover the pan and let the rise for another 90 minutes or so; it will again be puffy but it won't change in size nearly as much this time
  17. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and brush the loaf with the milk wash.
  18. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until baked through.