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Braided bread

My mother-in-law's recipe book has been invaluable over the more recent years of my cooking journey, and today's recipe (ever so slightly adjusted) is one that fans have been clamouring for: braided bread. This delicious, light brioche is sweet and fragrant- if you don't have saffron, try using a good amount of nutmeg, cinnamon, or any other spice you wish!

You will need:

900g flour, plus extra for dusting

200g butter, melted

500ml warm (not hot!) milk

50g dry yeast

1/2 tsp salt

250g caster sugar

1g saffron

2 eggs, beaten

Method:

Combine the butter, half the milk, and yeast. Stir thoroughly and set aside until the yeast is frothy.

Add the rest of the milk, sugar, and saffron once the yeast is frothy. Add one of the eggs to the mixture and beat on medium speed with an electric mixer with dough hooks if possible.

Once the mixture is smooth, add the flour, and crank the speed up to high. Continue to mix until the ingredients are well combined and you have an even, yellow dough. Cover with cling wrap and set aside in a large bowl for about 3 hours to rise. The dough may need a second proofing if it starts to spill over, but try to keep the rising time to about three hours to allow the saffron to infuse.

On a lightly floured surface, divide the dough into 3 even lumps, and roll each of them out individually into ropes. It's important that you don't over-flour the dough, as it's very buttery and really doesn't need any to prevent it from sticking. I like my strands to be at least an inch thick, so they get nice and fluffy when baking. If you prefer, you can divide the dough into two separate batches to make smaller breads- simply make 6 ropes instead of 3.

With the dough resting on a baking sheet lined with paper, pinch the tops of the three ropes together to join them, and braid your bread. It should neither be too tight or too loose- it should hold if you pick it up.

CELEBORN OF DORIATH

Delighted to share one of the two Celeborn commissions I’ve been working on this batch! The commissioner for this one wanted me to show him as young-ish, definitely whilst he was still living in Doriath, and I quote ‘the kind of elf that would make a Noldo princess’ jaw hit the floor’, and I was only too happy to oblige.

Anyway, if I was walking around in Lothlorien and this guy turns up and goes ‘where is Gandalf for I would much like to speak with him’, I would be telling him to hold on for five minutes, before hopping onto ebay and typing in ‘fake beard’, ‘pointy wizard hat’ and ‘morning after pill’.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

queer gauntlyet [FolloF]:

YTP-itization?

You take a poutube poop and, using only the source as a source, try to KICKBACK the veginal nerrarrara and dialtone as mum as you caac?? ???? ?

gauntletqueen: