Easiest Brioche

Name: Easiest Brioche
Prep time: 3 h 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 1 loaf, 16 serving(s)
Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/4 cup sugar; 1 1/2 teaspoons yeast; 8 tablespoons butter, cold and cut into chunks; 3 eggs; 1 egg yolk; 1/2 cup milk; 2 tablespoons milk; 1/3 cup water

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Recipe 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.

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READY IN: 4hrs

SERVES: 16

YIELD: 1 loaf

UNITS: US

INGREDIENTS

Nutrition

4

cups all-purpose flour
1

teaspoon salt
¹⁄₄

cup sugar
1 ¹⁄₂

teaspoons yeast
8

tablespoons butter, cold and cut into chunks
3

eggs
1

egg yolk
¹⁄₂

cup milk
2

tablespoons milk
¹⁄₃

cup water

DIRECTIONS

Combine dry ingredients in workbowl of food processor. Process for five seconds.
Add butter and 3 whole eggs. Process for 10 seconds.
With the machine running, pour, don't drizzle, 1/2 cup milk and 1/3 cup water into the mixture. Process for 30 seconds.
The dough will be very wet and sticky, almost like a batter.
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.
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.
Alternatively, use one 5x9" loaf pan for a single big loaf.
Let rise one hour.
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.

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