Easiest Brioche

Submitted by Sass Smith

"This is the simplest brioche method if you don't have a bread machine. Prep time includes rising time. From Mark Bittman."

 

• Ready In: 4hrs
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 1 loaf
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 946.36 ml all-purpose flour
• 4.92 ml salt
• 59.14 ml sugar
• 7.39 ml yeast
• 118.32 ml butter, cold and cut into chunks
• 3 eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 118.29 ml milk
• 29.58 ml milk
• 78.78 ml water

directions

1. Combine dry ingredients in workbowl of food processor. Process for five seconds.
2. Add butter and 3 whole eggs. Process for 10 seconds.
3. With the machine running, pour, don't drizzle, 1/2 cup milk and 1/3 cup water into the mixture. Process for 30 seconds.
4. The dough will be very wet and sticky, almost like a batter.
5. Grease a large bowl with butter and scrape the dough into it. Cover with plastic and let the dough rise 2-3 hours, until doubled.
6. Deflate the dough, shape into loaves (using only a little flour to coat your hands) and place in 2 buttered 8x4" loaf pans for two smallish loaves.
7. Alternatively, use one 5x9" loaf pan for a single big loaf.
8. Let rise one hour.
9. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix reserved 2 tbs milk and egg yolk and brush the tops of the loaves with this mixture. Bake the brioche for about 30 minutes, until slightly browned.