Whole Wheat Braided Bread with Milk Crisp
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1. Mix all the ingredients except butter and put them in a clean basin, and stir with chopsticks while adding water until there are no loose powder particles;
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2. Pour into the bread machine and start the kneading program;
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3. After two kneading procedures, add butter and continue kneading to the fully expanded stage;
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4. Pull out the glove film;
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5. Put it in a warm place for the first fermentation to double its original size;
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6. Take out the fermented dough and vent; divide the dough evenly into 9 equal parts and round them one by one, cover with plastic wrap and let it stand for 15 minutes;
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7. Take one part and divide it into three equal parts, and knead each part into 12cm long strips of uniform thickness;
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8. Slightly pinch the three long strips, braid them in a braided manner, and pinch the ends slightly; (this noodle is easy to stick together, so a little pinch at the head and tail will stick together)
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9. After finishing all the dough, place it in a warm and humid place for secondary fermentation;
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10. When the bread embryo is 1.5-2 times the original size, preheat the oven, and at the same time brush the egg liquid on the surface of the bread, and evenly sprinkle the milk crumbs;
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11. Oven at 180 degrees, bake the middle layer for 30 minutes until the surface is golden. (It depends on the situation of your own oven)
Tips:
When I was doing it, my son said that adding some condensed milk would make the milk more flavorful. I temporarily added condensed milk and didn't measure the amount.