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Old style brioche

Classical version of brioche use yeast to raise the dough, but in this recipe some leaven is added. This make a more rustic brioche, with a small taste of leaven.

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Last modified on: December 19^th 2014

Keywords for this recipe:Brioche Leaven Old style No yeast Viennoiserie

For 1 brioche, you will need:

1 500 g flour
2 20 g yeast
3 75 g leaven
4 2 tablespoons milk
5 4 eggs
6 250 g butter
7 100 g caster sugar
8 10 g Vanilla sugar
9 9 g fine (or table) salt
10 30 g beaten egg
Total weight: 1,224 grams

Change these quantities to make: 1 brioche 2 brioches 3 brioches

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
12 hours 36 min.	1 hour	30 min.	14 hours 6 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

In the bowl of a mixer or a mixing bowl, put 100 g caster sugar, 10 g Vanilla sugar, 9 g fine (or table) salt and 2 tablespoons milk.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Pour 500 g flour, 20 g yeast, and 75 g leaven on top.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Start the mixer, or start to knead with your hands.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Add 4 eggs immediately, knead for 5 minutes until you get a completely smooth dough.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Stop kneading, then add 250 g butter cut into small pieces (butter at room temperature) or grated with a cheese grater (butter straight from the freezer).

Stage 6 - 10 min.

Start to knead again until you get a homogeneous dough (approximately 10/15 minutes).

Stage 7 - 12 hours

Put the dough in a bowl, cover with plastic film, and refrigerate overnight.

Stage 8 - 1 hour

Next day, make balls of dough, at the same time you can mix in raisins, chocolate chips, small pieces of sugar, etc...

Then cover with a plastic sheet, and leave to rise at room temperature until they double in volume (approximately two hours).

Preheat the oven to 200°C or 392°F

Glaze the top of the dough.

Stage 9 - 30 min.

Cut crosses in the top of the balls and put in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes.

Keeping

Several days, in a linen bag.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,487 Kcal or 18,786 Kj	88 gr	517 gr	244 gr
224 %	34 %	49 %	37 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
367 Kcal or 1,537 Kj	7 gr	42 gr	20 gr
18 %	3 %	4 %	3 %

Per brioche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,487 Kcal or 18,786 Kj	88 gr	517 gr	244 gr
224 %	34 %	49 %	37 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 brioche : 4.03 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cod loin with saffron, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Flaky brownie brioche, Panettone, Grandma Solange's biscuits, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Artichoke hearts forestier , Buckwheat almond biscuits, Tarte Normande, Smoky sausage and mash, How to prepare spinach, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup , Bounty-style tart for Alison, Brioche dough, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Citrus tart, ... All
	Leaven: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Leavened bread, Special small breads, Pizza dough, Cretan Bread, Ali Baba bread, ... All

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