Description
A wonderful tender and feathery, elegant bread, and well-loved braided beautiful bread. This is actually quite easy to braid by using 6 strips of dough.
Egg dough bread is usually a soft, slightly sweet bread and lovely on its own but delicious to enjoy with other toppings.
Ingredients
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- 5 cups cake flour
- 1 pkt instant yeast
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 125g butter
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup milk - warm
- 3/4 cup water - lukewarm
Instructions
- Mix all dry ingredients.
- Place butter in warm milk to melt.
- Cool a bit. Add eggs, as well as the dry ingredients.
- Add lukewarm water a little at a time whilst kneading until the dough is the correct consistency.
- Allow rising till double in size. This will depend on the weather and where you reside. In the summer this will go way faster than whilst cold.
- Once doubled, then knock down the dough, and form 6 long strips, and plait the dough.
- Let is rest and allow rising again.
- Brush with beaten egg wash.
- Bake 180 degrees C until golden brown and done for +- 30 to 45 minutes.
- Enjoy
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested Ursula Andrews
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Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 263
- Sugar: 1
- Sodium: 332
- Fat: 9
- Saturated Fat: 5
- Unsaturated Fat: 3
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 40
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 6
- Cholesterol: 47
