Portuguese Brioche or Milk Bread (by the wife)

Giulietta · #1 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008

Guys, I posted here because I didn't know where to post this, but Cam and CD can later put the thread somewhere else if they want to.

This post is by my wife and it contains the recepy for Portuguese Brioche or Milk Bread.

These are small rolls often filled with sweet things (the sweet version), or salted stuff such as ham or chese, or plain...depends on the occasion.

This post was written by my wife, so watch what you say...

POST STARTS HERE:

Hello, it's me again, sorry to disturb you.

I have here the recipe for the BRIOCHE or as we call in Portugal, Milk Bread.

There are two types, the sweet and the un-sweet.

1) The sweet you put inside the bread, when shaping them into buns, dried fruits, almonds, chocolate, egg cream etc..whatever your sweet toth feels like having...

2) The unsweet (we call salty here in Portugal, you put inside ham, chorico, meat, cheese, chicken meat, etc..

You will need:

150 grams of milk (regular not fat free or skimmed) that is 5.3 ounces of milk
1 small quantity of salt (maybe half a tea spoon)
50 grams of sugar, that is 1.8 ounces of sugar
50 grams of margerine, that is 1.8 ounces of margerine
3 eggs yokes only, (no white liquid, sorry I don't know the name)
40 grams baker yeast (same yeast of the bread), that is 1.41 ounces of yeast
300 to 400 grams of flour (depends on how dryish they will come out)
2 soup spoons of vanilla sugar (if you want them to be sweet bread)

OR

1 tea spoon if you want the BRIOCHE to be unsweetened, for example to fill chorico or cheese, or any other stuff inside. (it's very good with ham inside, os sausage).

How to prepare:

Pour the milk, the salt the sugar and the margerine and stir well (note if you don't want the sweet bread, don't put the sugar, and put instead the 1 tea spoon of salt), make sure the milk is at a temperature of 98 Deg F.

Mix very well, please.

Then mix the eggs yokes, with the yeast before and stir for a few seconds. After its doen add to the milk and the rest of the ingredients.
Add the flour until the dough raches a nice consistency.

After it is dry and soft, mix by hand bending the dough many times..

Make rolls or cylinders and add what you want inside, (or nothing if you prefer) remeber if you opted for the sweet rolls add the fruits or the sweet things, if you opted for the salty version, add the cheese or ham.

Brush the top of the buns with a brush the yellow of eggs that you have beaten before (just the yellow, not the white). This will create a thin skin that is delicious after baking.

Then put the buns in the oven at 122 deg. Farheneit until the buns are twice the original size.

Once they are big, raise the oven temperature to 392 and bake for aproximately 20 minutes...

enjoy the bread.

Tomorrow I bake some for Alex and my boys and he puts the photos here.

Thank you,

Giulietta

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Thanks guys, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do..

Alex

teshannon · #2 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008

Thanks Alex. Sailnet still won't let me give you a rep point. I need to spread it around more before they'll let me do that but you deserve a lot from me. Happy Mothers Day.

camaraderie · #3 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008

Mrs. Giu needs her own screen name so we can give her rep points that won't be affected by all Giu's neg-reps!!

Tell her thanks Giu!!

sailingdog · #4 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008

Thanks Giulietta (the real giulietta)...

ADMTROX · #5 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008

Giulietta,

Thank you for the recipe, I love to bake bread and am always looking for new ideas....and this sounds delicious. By the way, we call them egg whites so you were not to far off.

Chris

Melrna · #6 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008

Thanks for the great recipe,, I will try to make it this week. Tell your husband to quit hogging up the computer and let you using it sometime.. and let you get a screen name here so us woman can talk about Alex at will.
Melissa

BusyMom · #7 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008

OK, Alexandre took some photos of the process of making the BRIOCHES..

HE, Fred and Luis devoured a few already, with butter and ham...

These are some phots he took and posts.

Start by mixing everything, this is my machine

Then after the first mix, add the eggs with the yeast.

Mix again

Then add the flour

And after mixing again, should look like this

This is the silicone mat

I have a little trick for you...to prevent the bread from coming out hard and hurt your teeth, I place another container with water in the oven, it keeps the moist inside and the bread comes out soft and nice.

Place the buns in the mat

pre heat the oven to 122F to raise the buns

After they raise, they should look like this

After 20 minutes at 392 F they should look like this...it's hard to keep the kids away from them...

here are the Portuguese BRIOCHE. Please powder them with fine sugar on top.

I hope you cook them and enjoy them as much as the boys do.

bye bye

Giulietta