The bread in this recipe is truly wonderful: delicious, moist, with a crispy crust sprinkled with sesame seeds. Thanks the added egg white crumb becomes light and airy. BUT if you replace sugar with honey, then the bread will get thin unobtrusive fragrance that can not be resisted. Dough kneads and forms quite easily. The hardest part for you will wait until it rises. Bake bread by arranging a steam bath in the oven to make you happy crisp. Based on this test, you can also do more dessert version of bread, adding cinnamon and изюм. 
Time:2 hours 40 min Difficulty: medium Amount: 1 loaf In recipes volumetric containers are used in volume: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cups (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (Art.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 1 tbsp. milk
- 3 tbsp. l (45 gr.) Butter
- 1 sachet (1 tbsp.) High-speed dry yeast
- 2 tbsp. l sugar or honey
- 3 tbsp. flour
- 2 tsp salt
- Protein 2 eggs, divide and beat lightly
- 1 tbsp. l sesame seeds
Recipes with similar ingredients: milk, butter, yeast, sugar, honey, premium flour, eggs, sesame seeds
Recipe preparation:
- In a small saucepan over low heat, heat the milk with butter until the butter melts. Remove from heat and pour into a bowl of a stationary mixer with a hook attachment for dough. Dissolve the yeast by adding it to warm milk and butter. Add sugar and mix gently to dissolve. Let stand 3 minutes until foam appears: this means that the yeast is active. Turn the mixer on at low speed and gradually stir in the flour. When the dough begins to gather in a lump, increase the speed to medium and add salt and 1 egg white. Stop periodically mixer to remove the dough from the hook. Knead until dough ceases to be sticky, about 10 minutes.
- Put the dough on a work surface and knead for a minute hands. Knead it, folding and pulling, but not pressing. Right the kneaded dough can be pulled and it will stretch without breaks. Form a ball from the dough and put in a greased with vegetable oil bowl, turn to cover the whole bowl with oil. Cover with plastic wrap or a damp towel and put in warm place to rise until the dough doubles in volume, about 45 minutes. Check the readiness of the dough by pressing it with two fingers. If a the recesses do not level out for a long time, the dough has risen sufficiently.
- Once the dough is doubled, put it on the working surface. While you spread it, the dough itself will deflate naturally, so there’s no need to knead it violently. Handle the dough carefully. If you knead at this point gluten, it will turn out too dense, and it will be difficult to form. * To make a loaf, form from dough rectangle, fold the long sides to the middle, then fold ends. Pinch the edges and put the dough in a greased form for bread size 22×12 cm. Seam down. Make sure the dough is fully fills out the form. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise a second time in 20 minutes or until the top of the dough is almost at the top of the mold. Preheat the oven to 175 ° C, place a large shape on the lower grill of the oven. Bring to boiling on the stove 3 tbsp. water. Pour hot water into hot water. shape to create a steam bath for bread. So his crust will become crispy.
- Cut the dough with a sharp knife in the middle of the loaf so that during baking steamed steam. Lubricate the top with the remaining beaten egg protein and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the crust will not turn golden, and the internal temperature of the bread will not reaches 90 ° C on a high-speed thermometer. When tapping the loaf should emit a hollow sound. Take out the bread immediately shape and cool completely on the wire rack.
* Cooking options:
To make bread with curls of cinnamon and raisins, after the first lift the dough, form a rectangular layer from it, sprinkle surface with cinnamon and raisins to completely cover it. Roll up dough roll and continue to work with it as indicated in recipe.
