Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos
at October 12, 2008 at 11:36 PM. 
Milk bread
Makes 20:
500 g all-purpose flour
1 egg
10 g salt
50 g sugar
20 g fresh yeast
200 ml warm milk
125 g butter, softened
In the mixer, combine all the ingredients (except butter) together with the dough hook attachment and the yeast dissolved in the milk.
Mix for 10 minutes at medium speed.
Slowly fold in the butter.
Place the dough into a bowl covered with a cloth or wrap film, in a tempered place (24ºC) for 1 hour or until it doubles its size.
Fold gently.
Place egg-sized dough balls into a greased baking sheet leaving 2 cms between them.
Brush with egg yolk dissolved in water.
Let it rest again, in a tempered place, for 30 minutes.
Pre-heat the oven to 200ºC.
Brush agains with the egg mixture, sprinkle with sugar and make a cross shaped cut on top of each bread.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Let them cool down over a rack.
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