Sunday, October 9, 2011

Recipe: 湯種麵包 Chinese soup bread

First time making bread at home with the bread maker


Mmm, soft warm bread!  Too bad we always finish the entire loaf every time, so still no bread left over to eat!
 
1.  湯種 (flour soup base) :  Needs to be made a few hours before or a day before.
High protein flour 50g
water 250g
***Add 50g of flour to the water, then put on stove and stir until dissolved.  Measure temp until it reaches 149F and the flour soup appear viscous.  Remove from stove when temp is reached and cool completely, or refrigerate.

Making of the bread:
1.  Add the following into the bread machine container:
High protein bread flour 237.5g (~1.75cup)
Rapid yeast 5g (1.5 teaspoon)
Salt 2g (1 teaspoon)
Sugar 20g
Milkpowder 7.5g

2.  Then Add:
湯種 (flour soup base) 78g
Milk 97.5g
Butter 22.5g (1.5 tablespoon)

***Start the bread machine at the soft bread setting, takes about 3 hours.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Michelle, The bread looks so good... i was wondering what is the flour soup base you use, what brand and where to buy it? Can't wait to try it out!

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  2. i showed my husband the recipe, and he told me that you already gave the recipe for the flour soup base there....hahaha, i should have read it more carefully. Anyway, he was amazed by how chewy your bread looks. Ok, we'll go buy the high protein flour for this!

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