Is there anything more cozy than a soft and delicious French bread with blue poppy seeds made from whole milk? For me, it brings back many childhood memories from the local bakery.
Recipe for full-milk french bread
Is there anything cozier than a soft and delicious milk bread with blue poppy seeds made from whole milk?
For me, it brings back lots of childhood memories from the local bakery. Once you’ve learned the proper folding technique, it’s not that difficult to get a beautifully risen and airy milk bread in your own kitchen.
Servings: bread
Full-Milk French Bread
Is there anything more cozy than a soft and delicious French bread with blue poppy seeds made from whole milk? For me, it brings back many childhood memories from the local bakery.
Ingredients
- 0.5 package Yeast
- 500 gram Whole Milk
- 12.5 gram Sugar
- 18 gram Salt
- 780 gram Wheat Flour
- 50 gram Butter
- Flour For shaping
- Birches Blue. For decorating.
- 50 gram Milk For brushing
Instructions
- Warm milk and butter in a saucepan.
- The butter should melt and the milk should be around 37 degrees Celsius (99 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Pour it into a mixing bowl.
- Add yeast and sugar and stir.
- Let it stand for 5-10 minutes.
- Add salt and stir.
- Add about 100 grams of flour at a time while stirring vigorously.
- Run it on your mixer for up to 10 minutes, so it gets kneaded well.
- Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let it rest for about an hour.
- Sprinkle flour on your kitchen counter and place the dough there.
- The next part about folding can be seen described in pictures in this French bread recipe.
- Use your hands to flatten the dough into a rectangle.
- Fold the ends towards the middle and press them together.
- Then roll the whole thing together like a sausage from the top.
- Place the dough in a bread tin lined with baking paper. The seam of the dough should be on the bottom.
- Let it rise for 30 minutes, preferably under a clean kitchen towel.
- Score the bread with a knife crosswise.
- Brush the top with milk and sprinkle blue sesame seeds on top of the bread.
- Bake it in the oven at 250 degrees Celsius (482 degrees Fahrenheit) with fan for 10 minutes and then 20 minutes at 210 degrees Celsius (410 degrees Fahrenheit)
- Enjoy.
Notes
See for example the folding technique here: