Ingredients
20g yeast
4 tbsp water
warm
60g caster sugar
(1/4 cup)
500g strong (bread) flour
(3 1/3 cup)
6 eggs
300g butter
softened
1 egg
for egg wash
Equipment
- 1 electric mixer
- 1 dough hook
- 1 bowl
- 1 tea towel
- 1 refrigerator
- 1 saucepan
- 1 greaseproof paper
- 1 oven
- 1 wire rack
Instructions
- Activate your yeast with the warm water and half the sugar.
- Add to flour and mix with your dough hook – adding your eggs one at a time until it is smooth and elastic.
- Beat the softened butter and remaining sugar together and slowly add this mixture to the dough, a little at a time. Continue to mix for 5 mins making sure the dough is smooth and glossy.
- Cover your bowl with a tea towel and rest in a warm place for a couple of hours, until the dough has doubled in size.
- Knock it back and cover with tea towel and place in the refrigerator for another couple of hours.
- Knock it back again on a lightly loured bench and mould into a ball. Line the saucepan with a sheet of buttered greaseproof paper, twice the height of the saucepan.
- Place the dough in the saucepan and lightly glaze the top of the brioche with an egg wash.
- Leave for 20 mins in a warm place to rise once more.
- Bake for 40-45 mins in a preheated oven 170C or 150C fan-forced.
- Place on a wire rack to cool and then slice and serve with your favourite jam.
Notes
Tip
The fresher your eggs and the better butter you use, the better and yummier your brioche.
Tip
Extracted from Produce to Platter: Yarra Valley & The Dandenongs (Smudge Publishing, $34.95), now available at all good book stores or online at Smudge Publishing.
