Japanese Milk Bread

 

This recipe was adapted from: Here

Yesterday I baked this Japanese milk bread.  If you want to know more about this bread, please visit the link given. The author of the link provided gave very details of how to make this Japanese bread.

I follow the recipe closely and made a successful soft bread and it is suitable to make sandwiches because of the loaf pan that is rectangular in size. Go get yourself a Pullman loaf pan and start making Pullman bread.

Ingredients for big Pullman tin:

440 g Bread flour - 100 %

290 g Milk - 66%

26 g sugar - 6%

9 g Salt - 2%

53 g soft Butter - 12%

13 g Sweetened Condensed Milk - 3%

4 g Yeast - 1%

Ingredients for small pullman tin:(This is suitable for my pan)

318 g Bread Flour 

210 g Milk

19 g Sugar

6 g Salt

38 g Soft Butter

10 g sweetened Condensed Milk

3 g Yeast

I use bread maker kneading. 

Using a Bread Maker

• Add milk, salt, sugar, soft butter, condensed milk,  flour to the bread maker and lastly yeast. 
• Select "dough" setting to make the dough only. Follow your own bread maker instructions.
• After the cycle is finished, take the dough out and divide it into 3 parts evenly. Covered with a damped cloth or paper towel. Bench rest for 30 minutes.
• Take one piece and use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into a 4 in x 6 in (10 cm x 15 cm) sheet. Pinch one end and fold the other end lengthwise. With the fold opening downwards, form it into a U shape and place it into one end of the bread pan.
• Repeat the same process for the second piece and place it on the other end. Do the last one and place in the middle. Make sure all the ends of the dough hit the bread pan without large gaps.
• Final proofing at  82°F / 28° C (80% humidity) until the dough rises to 80% of the pan for square shaped toast.
• Preheat the oven ahead of time to 395° F / 200° C. Cover the pan with a lid and bake for 30 minutes. 
• Shake the pan 1-2 times and transfer the bread to a cooling rack. Wait till it completely cools down before slicing.