Simple Sweet Bread Recipe | Julie Blanner (2024)

FAQs

What is Mexican sweet bread made of? ›

Conchas Ingredients

For the bread: warm water, yeast, all-purpose flour, evaporated milk, white sugar, melted butter, an egg, salt, and ground cinnamon. For the topping: white sugar, softened butter, all-purpose flour, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract.

Many bread recipe call for white sugar. It's cheap and easy and doesn't add much flavor except pure sweetness. Raw cane sugar and brown sugar add a little more flavor and color. They also contain trace minerals not found in refined white sugar.

Bread flour with a high protein content is ideal for making soft and fluffy bread dough. The higher protein content helps to develop gluten, which is essential for the structure and texture of the bread. By using a combination of wet and dry ingredients in the right proportions.

"Quick bread" is a term used to describe any and all breads that are made without yeast as a leavening agent. They are leavened chemically, usually with baking powder or baking soda, and can be with sweet or savory. Technically, most sweet breads (section 8) are also quick breads.

The origin of sweet bread in Mexico dates back to a few years after the Spanish conquest. The Spanish people introduced wheat bread and the first bakery businesses. To make wheat bread a successful product on the market, they added an extra ingredient to it: Sugar.

Mix 1 1/2 cups flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl. Add water, milk, butter, honey and 2 eggs. Mix very well, adding more flour if necessary, until a soft dough forms. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until it's smooth and stretchy, about 10 minutes.

It is not recommended to substitute powdered sugar for granulated sugar. Since powdered sugar has a much finer texture, and it contains a small percentage of cornstarch to prevent caking, substituting can give you unexpected results.

Because yeast does not divide much in bread dough (only 20-30% increase in cell numbers in 4 hours), what you start with is what you end up with in terms of yeast numbers. This can affect the bread by adding a "yeasty" taste if you put too much into the dough.

Glucose is the preferred substrate of yeast [1,41]. In this study, at least 23.6 ± 2.6% of the total amount of glucose released from the sucrose or fructan was consumed. The residual glucose and fructose remained in the final product.

Commercial bread is softer due to the steam process used by bakeries, which is made to keep bread hydrated and fresh. Use cold water in a pan and put it on a rack beneath your bread to create steam.

What does powdered milk do for bread? ›

High-heat nonfat milk powder is processed at a higher temperature, which means it has a higher denatured protein content. High-heat milk powder also has a sweeter, slightly more caramelized flavor. The added sweetness and protein helps bread dough rise—particularly enriched dough like brioche.

Potato Flakes or Potato Water

Starch helps the dough by trapping the gas from the yeast in the dough and makes the bubbles stronger. This helps the bread to rise and be lighter and fluffier. If you are boiling potatoes, you can use the unsalted water in place of the water in your bread recipe to help out the yeast.

By surrounding small particles of fat, the egg helps make the quick bread batter smoother, thus contributing to volume and texture. In addition, when eggs are beaten, they incorporate tiny air bubbles that expand with heat in the oven, contributing to volume.

Sweet bread, also referred to as pan dulce, buns, or coffee bread, is a bread or cake that is typically sweet in flavor. Some sweet breads, such as Portuguese pão doce, may be prepared with potato flour, which imparts a sweet flavor and light texture to them.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in bowl; set aside. Combine milk, sugar, melted butter, eggs and vanilla in another bowl; stir 20-30 seconds. Add flour mixture, one-third at a time, stirring after each addition just until smooth. (There may be a few small lumps in batter.)

Sweetbreads are harvested from calves, lambs, and young cattle and refer to two different organs and three different tissues located in these animals. The thymus consists of two parts, one located in the cervical region in the neck adjacent to the trachea called neck sweetbread and the other in the thorax region.

This capirotada, or Mexican bread pudding, features layers of nuts, cheese, dried fruit and bread drizzled with cinnamon-infused sugar syrup.

Prepare bread: Mix flour, eggs, egg yolks, sugar, water, dry yeast, orange zest, lime zest, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon butter; mix until dough is elastic and shiny, about 5 minutes. Form dough into a ball.

In reality, sweetbreads are actually a type of offal made from the internal organs from either lambs or calves. While people do of course eat animal testicl*s, testicl*s are most often sold as “fries” or “stones”, while sweetbreads are rather made from glands like the thymus and the pancreas.