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Old style brioche

Name: Old style brioche
Prep time: 13 h 36 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 14 h 6 min
Yield: 1 brioche
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 500 g flour; 20 g yeast; 75 g leaven; 2 tablespoons milk; 4 eggs; 250 g butter; 100 g caster sugar; 10 g vanilla sugar; 9 g fine (or table) salt; 30 g beaten egg

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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Duration

14 hours 10 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: October 21^th 2026

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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: 1,225 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

12 hours 40 min.

Resting

1 hour

Cooking

30 min.

All in all

14 hours 10 min.

Preparation 12 hours 40 min.

Resting 1 hour

Cooking 30 min.

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Step by step recipe

Step 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.

Step 2 - ⌛ 3 min.

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

Step 3 - ⌛ 3 min.

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

Step 4 - ⌛ 10 min.

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

Step 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).

Step 6 - ⌛ 10 min.

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

Step 7 - ⌛ 12 hours

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

Step 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.

Step 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.

Source: Home made.

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Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	7 g RDI=11 %	42 g RDI=16 %	20 g RDI=27 %	375 kcal RDI=19 %	1,572 kJ RDI=19 %
Whole recipe	88 g RDI=135 %	517 g RDI=195 %	242 g RDI=332 %	4,596 kcal RDI=230 %	19,241 kJ RDI=230 %