Chinese Milk Bread
Food Network Kitchen · foodnetwork.com · 2022 · 8 buns
Against 73 Japanese milk bread recipes
More butter than 97% of recipes and more egg than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 73 Japanese milk bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 97% of recipes: 23% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 13%.
- More egg than 98% of recipes: 35% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 14%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More sugar than 86% of recipes: 18% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 13%.
- Less liquid than 79% of recipes: 51% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 68%.
Ingredients (10)
- 2 cups (240 g) plus 2 tablespoons (18 g) bread flour, plus more for dusting258 g
- 1/2 cup (114 g) plus 1 tablespoon cold whole milk114 g
- 4 tablespoons (50 g) plus 2 teaspoons sugar50 g
- 5 tablespoons (65 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature65 g
- 2 teaspoons (7 g) active dry yeast7 g
- 2 large eggs, straight from the refrigerator≈ 100 g
- 3 tablespoons (21 g) dry milk powder21 g
- 1/4 cup (28 g) cake flour28 g
- 1 teaspoon (3 g) kosher salt3 g
- 2 teaspoons hot water≈ 10 g
flour 286 gbatter 656 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 73 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid51% · 20th percentile · median 68%
- Butter23% · 98th percentile · median 13%
- Sugar18% · 87th percentile · median 13%
- Egg35% · 99th percentile · median 14%
- Salt1% · 20th percentile · median 1.6%
- Yeast2.4% · 86th percentile · median 1.8%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 31 minutes
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