#bread bible

bread log (blog) 3

So, my parents are starting to get sick of eating white bread so we’re spicing it up a bit with a ~brioche~. The recipe I used is from Rose Levy Baranbaum’s Bread Bible. 

Ingredients:

29.5g water

37.5g sugar (from a fig jar)

4.8g the yeast that smells like vanilla

227g Central Milling Company’s all-purpose flour

171g eggs (actually three eggs)

1 stick butter (that was supposed to be soft but I forgot to let it warm up)

3.3g salt

Final product:

Commentary:

IT WAS SO GOOD. There’s really nothing like eating soft, warm bread. I may have let it ferment for too long on the first day (in my defense, the instructions are unclear!) so it smelled a lot like wine, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. My parents complained that it wasn’t sweet enough, so I’m planning on doubling the sugar next time! I also didn’t dust off the flour completely before rolling the final dough, so there is a bit of swirl throughout the loaf.