Milk bread It is a wide term used to describe light, fluffy bread made with the tangzhong method, a technique that includes pre-cooking some flour and milk in a soft paste before mixing the dough.
Milk bread originates in Japan and is often called Japanese milk bread or Hokkaido milk bread. (Hokkaido is an island and prefecture in Japan known for its dairy.) While its exact origin is unclear (some trace it all the way to the last 19th century), this white bread Soft and soft became popular in Japan in Japan after World War II, when rice deficiencies in the country led to imports of American wheat, and consequently an increase in the popularity of bread in Japanese diets and cuisine. Milk bread became the daily bread de facto throughout Japan, found in bakeries and markets. It is also called shock (which translates freely into “daily bread”), and is distinguished by its repentant crumbs, wet interior, slightly sweet taste and external soft.
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The secret of that crumb signature is Tangzong method. With the origin in Japan's Yukone (or Yudane) technique, tangzhong is a technique of yeast bread popular throughout Asia by the author of the Taiwanese cooking book Yvonne Chen in its book 65 ° C Bread doctor. Tangzhong involves cooking some recipes of a baking recipe in the juice before adding it to the remaining dough ingredients. Bringing the temperature of the flour and fluid at 65 ° C (149 ° F) pre-penstens the flour starch, which makes them more capable of maintaining fluid-thereby increasing the softness of the resulting bread.
Photographs by Kristin Teig; Food styling by Liz Neily
In addition to making a gentle bread and wet, tangzhong method helps the bread to stay fresh longer. This is because pre-gelinized starch helps bread maintain extra moisture, which prevents staling even when the days go by.
While traditional milk bread is uncontrolled, this style of bread has become an empty canvas for different tastes and shapes. In addition to the classic Japanese milk breadyou can do Rolves Japanese milk breador even Donuts with milk bread. Or try Chocolate milk breadwhich shakes the line between breakfast and dessert. And if you want a wonderful bread there is Tiger milk bread, Dairy bread with matcha marbleAND Almond milk milk bread.
Learn how to make Japanese milk bread Our direct school class for baking online.
Picture covered (Almond milk milk bread) by Patrick Marinello; Food styling by Yekaterina Bysova.
