Recipe#2481

Title: Brioche

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: baldrick@ix.netcom.com (Michael Wenlock) 
 Subject: Brioche 
 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 04:25:52 GMT 
 Message-ID: <3sdfog$eco_002@woodhead.cts.com> 

3-4 cups flour
 1 tsp salt
 2 Tbls sugar
 6 large eggs
 3 packages dry yeast (or equivalent cake yeast)
 2 1/4 sticks ( 9 oz.) unsalted butter, softened slightly
 Sift dry ingredients into a bowl starting with 3 cups of flour.
 Toss in dry yeast.  Add eggs and stir 10 minutes.  Add softened
 butter and work into a bread dough. Add flour if needed.
 Turn into a lightly floured bowl. Let rise till doubled (1 hour
 or so).  Punch down. Refrigerate until completely cool (1/2 hour
 or so).
 Form into two loaves. Place into well greased and floured pans.
 Let rise till it reaches the top of the pans. (1 hr or so) Bake at
 350 F until golden brown. (45 minutes to an hour) Remove and let
 cool on rack.