Japanese Milk Bread Recipe | Fluffy and wonderful bread

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5 minutes reading time

White bread is one of those wonders of the baking world, but it seems hard to get great results at home. The bread is dense, it doesn’t get the right caramelization and it’s pretty tasteless. This bread solves all of those problems. This is my recipe for sourdough Japanese milk bread.

The Japanese aren’t traditionally bread eaters, they have limited room for fields and they have an ocean bountiful of wonderful fish, so that’s a no brainer.

During the 20th Century, the Japanese have shown themselves to be masters of being inspired by and adapting food trends from all over the world, and they always take things to the max. Think the Indian-inspired Katsu Curry, or in this case the French pain de mie.

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Open Crumb Sourdough Bread Recipe – Simple and beautiful looking bread

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6 minutes reading time

So you’ve been baking sourdough bread for a while. You’ve got shaping covered, you know how to develop the gluten in the dough, and you even get fermentation right, almost every time, but the one thing that eludes you is the fabled open crumb. Well, the Foodgeek comes to your rescue. This is my recipe for open crumb sourdough bread.

When that’s said, this is NOT a beginner recipe, so if you’re just starting in the sourdough game, you should check out my Master Recipe for Artisan Sourdough Bread. It breaks everything down and makes it easy.

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Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls | The best and most moist cinnamon rolls

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6 minutes reading time

You want something special for breakfast tomorrow morning. I guess you could drive to the bakery and get something good. While that is okay, the stuff that you bake at home is usually much, much better, but what to make? This is my recipe for sourdough cinnamon rolls.

Cinnamon rolls are the stuff of legends. It’s ambrosia. Food of the Gods. When you walk past a bakery or even a 7eleven, and the smell of something freshly baked with cinnamon in it, you just start to instantly salivate. How many people do you know that don’t like a cinnamon bun? If you do, do you trust them?

The perfect companion for a wonderful homemade breakfast, is, in my very humble opinion these delicious crusty sourdough rolls. Together with the cinnamon rolls, this is the breakfast of champions.

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