By Christie Vanover | Published September 5, 2011 | Last Updated December 28, 2022
I learned to bake this bread at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Chef taught us to shape it like a baguette and fill it with chocolate chunks. I remembered it being tender, moist and dense.
I hadn’t made it since school, but I was in a bread-baking mood, so I thought I would try it on my own. This batch makes three loaves, and the dough needs to ferment overnight in the refrigerator.
If you prefer, you can freeze the dough and thaw it when you need a loaf. Milk bread makes great French toast, and it’s terrific for egg salad sandwiches.
As a reminder, I prefer to weigh all of my ingredients when baking. When you scoop dry ingredients with American measuring cups, you end up with variance every time. Bon appétit!
Milk Bread
Ingredients
- 20 grams fresh cake yeast or 1 packet active dry yeast
- 20 grams 1 tablespoon salt
- 60 grams ⅓ cup sugar
- 500 ml 2 cups milk
- 1 kilogram 7 ⅓ cups King Arthur all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 100 grams 7 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Knead yeast, salt, sugar, milk, flour and eggs for two minutes. Add room temperature butter. Continue kneading until it forms a ball (about two minutes). Increase speed if needed.
- It will be sticky as the butter begins to incorporate, but then it will start to mix and will create a soft dough.
- Cut into loaves or rolls. For loaves, I weigh out 700 grams of dough. For a baguette, I use 400 grams of dough. And for rolls, I use 80 grams.
- Place on lightly floured counter. Shape into a loaf, baguette or rolls.
- Allow to rise on the counter for 1 hour.
- Place in refrigerator overnight to ferment.
- The next morning, brush with egg wash. Score the top with a knife. Let it rise for 20-30 minutes. Brush with one more layer of egg wash.
- Bake at 350 degrees until done. Loaves take about 25 minutes.
This estimate was created using an online nutrition calculator
Mona Hickey says
Thanks for the recipe. Hope to make this bread soon, but I will have to get a measuring apparatus that measures by the gram because I have never measured ingredients that way.
zestuous says
I forgot to convert all the weights. Sorry about that. I just updated the recipe. You can use less salt, if you’d like. 20 grams of salt is just under 1 T.
Kathy says
Mona, Google it and will convert the grams for you. We don’t measure by grams either.