Description
A beautiful braided egg bread
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 packages active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 – 6 tablespoons sugar (depending on your taste)
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 1/2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- for topping:
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon poppyseeds or sesame seeds
Instructions
- Sprinkle the yeast over 1/2 cup warm water (110 F) to soften, stir until dissolved
- Heat milk, butter, sugar, and salt until sugar dissolves, cool to lukewarm and stir in 2 cups of flour
- Add yeast and 2 eggs, combine, and add enough flour to make a soft dough (anouther cup to 1 1/2 cups)
- Knead on a floured surfaces, continuing to add flour for about 5 minutes, until the dough is smooth
- Form into a ball, and place in an oiled bowl, turn the dough over (this oils the top), and cover the bowl, leave in a warm place unti doubled in size about 90 minutes
- Punch down the dough, divide into thirds, roll each third into an 18 inch strand, braid, securing the ends by tucking under
- Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet, cover, let rise, about 30 minutes
- Whisk together the egg yolk and water, gently brush the loaf with this egg wash and sprinkle with seeds
- Bake at 375 F for 35 – 45 minutes, the bread should be golden brown and sound hollow when tapped (mine is a little too brown, it should have come out a few minutes earlier)
Notes
If you want to make the sweetened topping like przyslijprzepis.pl, combine 4 teaspoons butter, with 3 tablespoons of sugar, work in up to 1/2 cup of flour until you have a nice crumble, sprinkle this over the egg wash rather then poppy or sesame seeds