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Yes , we are presenting bread , which is the same as a bread again today on this channel .
I have a previous video , but this was prepared with a lot of intricacies so that if you're looking for or to replicating the recipe , you will have fewer questions to no questions at all .
You will be able to replicate the recipe with much ease in my previous video .
There were a lot of questions that came up .
So today , I'm really gonna take my time and work with you together measuring the ingredients accurately .
So stay with me .
Now , I get everything I need ready prepped to go .
OK .
Today we are using bread flour .
In my previous video , we used all purpose flour .
And the difference is that bread , flour has a higher content of protein which is the gluten .
So therefore , we will not need to double rice this time round .
So I pour the entire flour into a separate bowl and I'm going to measure the flour straight into my mixing bowl so that I place on my ski and I zero it to begin with right now , the flour needs to be prepped .
And in order to do that , you can use a strainer to sift it to loosen the particles of the flour or you can just use your whisk , go deep into the flour , lift it up and it should contain a lot of the flour and just gently tap it to loosen it .
And by doing this , you'll be able to measure your flour or your drying Andres accurately .
Ok .
So you want your cup , we're measuring a cup at a time and you want to flatten the surface using a butter knife , the flat part of the batter knife .
And we're measuring a cup at a time , as I said , and that comes to 100 and 55 g of flour .
So , so for those of you who are going to be weighing your or um ingredients there , you have it .
So do that conversion .
So we use six cups total as I did in my previous video , which comes to 930 g of flour .
Now we're going to measure our sugar .
So each time you put your vessel on there to measure your ingredient into it , you want to zero it first .
So now we have measured half a cup of sugar .
Granulated sugar works well in this recipe and that comes to 70 g of sugar .
OK , just about half a cup of sugar .
You don't need a whole lot of sugar in butter bread or a , a bread .
Now , here is my yeast , which I have tested and I know this yeast is good and it's alive .
We let our rice , we use a tablespoon and a half , which comes to 12 g .
Now , we're going to measure our salt and it is important to put your salt far away from the yeast .
So it doesn't have direct contact with the yeast immediately because the salt tends to kill the yeast , which the yeast is alive and we need to keep it alive .
In order that our dough rises .
I have also just added some nutmeg .
You can substitute that with cinnamon or whatever kind of bakery essence .
What ever kind of flavor you want ?
Whisk all your dry ingredients together to perfectly and evenly , combine them and set them aside .
It is now time to work on combining our wet ingredients which all have to be at room temperature .
Now , for the wet ingredients have your measuring vessel on a flat surface to get accurate readings .
So there is no tilting if you're holding it that way , your your readings are just on point .
Baking is a science .
OK .
So you have to be strategic to get it right ?
So I have added half a cup of evaporated milk for that richness .
I've also added some vanilla extract and one egg at room temperature .
And I just whisk them all together to evenly combine them .
Now , we're going to measure our cup .
Same strategy , have it on a flat surface and pour in room temperature water , looking at it at eye level .
So , you know , you're getting accurate readings and we don't have quite two cups yet .
So we're going to add a little more water and now we have exactly two cups .
We're going to combine this water with our egg and milk mixture , whisk to combine well .
And now we're going to slowly drizzle the wet ingredients into the dry .
First , we want to turn on our mixer .
Now , in my previous video , I used my hands in mixing the dough and forming that gluten that very important gluten .
So you'll notice that I use a little more water .
That was strategic too .
First of all , I used all purpose flour .
So that was one big difference .
Second , I was using my hand .
So I needed the dough to be stickier that way .
I'm able to easily form that gluten because it stiffens on you and it resists you after a while .
And I was also going to use flour to need the dough to form that important gluten .
So that's , that's just to explain why that I did that right now , we're going to add our butter .
Why are we adding our butter ?
Now , we didn't add it to begin with .
Why ?
Because the butter tends to break down that gluten So you want to kind of add it later on .
So once you the doll forms and lifts off the sides of the inner walls of the mixing bowl , then you go in and add your room temperature butter in bits while you turn up the speed of the mixer .
All right , and incorporate with it .
Well , so the dough comes off the sides .
Again , that will be your indication that the batter has been incorporated well and evenly throughout the dough .
So you now you're going to pour the dough onto your clean work surface and it has to be dry .
And I'm not going to be using any flour in needing the dough .
OK ?
We're going to need a little more , not too long , maybe four minutes .
If that .
All right .
Now , while you are kneading the dough , you will notice that it starts to resist the kneading and the way to know that is right here , see how it bounced right back .
It is resisting you .
So now you know that the gluten is perfectly formed , you don't need to need anymore .
So now you're just going to form it into that shape , round perfect shape and cover it with a damp kitchen cloth .
We're going to let this dough rest for just 10 minutes because this time around we're using bread flour , which has a high protein content and therefore does not need to double rice as is the case in all purpose flour .
So , therefore , that has a lower um protein content and therefore needs to double rice to really get that texture .
Right .
Now .
This pan I got on Amazon dot com is the same one I used in the previous video and it's 1000 g .
Now , if you do not find the 1000 g um covered pan on Amazon , I'm going to link it below for you .
But if you don't find it because they ran out or whatever the case might be , you can use any bread pan .
It doesn't have to have a cover on it to bake this bread , right ?
It's just a mold .
It just gives it that classic butter bread or a bread shape .
That's all it does .
It doesn't change the , the , the taste as you know , in any way , shape or form .
Now as your dough rest to relax the gluten , you have 10 minutes to prep your pan , right ?
You want to generously grease it with some but , but carry on with that butter theme .
It is butter bread that we're making so generously grease it and you want to get into every corner with the butter , right ?
That's important .
So that when your dough or um your bread cooks , it's done baking .
It's easy for it to come out , right ?
It doesn't stick to the walls of the baking pan .
Now that 10 minutes has passed , your dough is relaxed .
You can see it's easier to work with , it's not resisting .
You um and so just take it , spread it out into about uh a rectangular shape and you're going to fold it towards you because what you're doing is forming the shape of a log of wood , right ?
So kind of pinch and pull towards you and tack it in .
Now use your thumb to tack in and use the heel of your palm to press down to form a seam , right ?
An incision like seam and then roll it out and you want your log of dough to be even throughout .
And here is that seam .
You want to lay the dough seams side down into your pan and very important friends when you are laying the dough into the pan , be careful to not scrape off the butter and the flour because you want a struggle free removal of the final product from this mold .
Ok .
So tap it down once .
So the dough settles perfectly into the very bottom of the pan and then close it .
Now this pan is available on Amazon dot com like I said previously .
So you can use that if you have access to it , otherwise you can use any pan at all .
Now , it was warm outside .
So it only took 45 minutes for it to rise .
Now you don't want it to rise all the way to where it touches the lid .
No , otherwise when you bake it , the the dough is going to find its way out through any any hole it can find its way through .
All right .
So you want to have at least an inch from the top of the pan to the top of the dough .
You want that free space when it , it rises and that should take about 45 minutes outside in a temperature that's about 95 F .
So just keep an eye on your dough .
Ok ?
Depending on the temperature of where you are .
Now , I have placed on there some water that's going to create moisture , acid bakes because we want this bread to bake nice and moist .
We don't want too crusty and we don't want it to definitely don't want it to be dry .
We're going to bake for one hour , 60 minutes OK ?
At 325 F .
So you notice friends that we did not double rice this dough because again , we're using bread flour , which is equivalent to the flour we use in Ghana .
So our hard flour and that's what we refer to that flower in Ghana .
We call it hard flour .
So we have the heart and we have the soft , the hard flour is the same as bread flour .
It does not need to double rice because of the high protein content .
One hour later , our bread is done , just look at how perfect it turned out and see how easily we were able to remove the bread from the pan .
So all the pan is , is a mold .
Ok .
You just want that classic a bread butter bread shape .
If you don't have this pan in the absence of it , please use any pan .
You have .
Um , this is six cups of flour and it fits perfectly into this pan and it bakes beautifully .
Just look at that .
I hope that this tutorial was helpful to you .
I know a lot of you want to replicate this recipe and have had some questions and possibly some difficulty .
And I hope this brings that ease and peace of mind .
You know , for you to really uh uh replicate this recipe .
It has been resting for 30 minutes .
It's still a little warm , but it's rested well .
And that's important before you cut into the baked bread and just look at how it cut through it just like butter and the texture was perfect .
It brought me right back to those memories we made in my mother's bakery .
My mother's bakery was called Lily Mark , which is her first name and my father's first name .
Put together those memories .
I will cherish forever .
Just look at this bread .
Perfect , quick , easy .
I am glad I use bread flour today instead of all purpose flour because we did not need to double rice and it still came out perfect .
So friends , I hope you try this recipe .
Please just take a look at how it bounces back .
Perfect texture .
This bread was gone before I could blink .
At least half of it was gone .
Yes .
You should be able to fold it together like that .
Fold it in half like that and they should be able to bounce right back to its original shape .
This is perfect bread .
The texture was just amazing and I hope that you try this recipe soft chewy .
Awesome .
Oh , I couldn't ask for better .
Just look at that .
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Now my daughter spread some butter onto it .
She said mom , what should I do ?
And I'm like , I don't know , just spread the butter .
You me John Ross if you want to , we don't eat butter bread every day .
So it's ok .
So they she is ready to dig right into this .
Yes , this was lovely .
It turned out perfectly and uh I was a happy woman .
So I baked some sugar bread as well using butter bread and that recipe also is coming up shortly .
Keep on staying tuned .
I thank you all so much as always , friends and family make it a great day and have fun , especially in that kitchen .