Herman - Sweet Pandan Milk Bread 香兰牛奶甜吐司

It was Friday - that's my designated Herman bread baking day 🍞 Using a longer baking pan I bought from Ikea, I had to increased the dough volume by 20% as compared to my previous bake.

The freshly prepared pandan puree gave the soft bread it's unique sweet flavour and natural yellowish green hue. I cut the bread into thicker slices for better 口感 😋

Bread maker: Mayer MMBM12
Raw dough weight: 652g

Pan size: 26x10x7.5 cm narrow base
Baking temperature: In a cold oven progressively increase the temperature from 120°C to 170°C at an interval of 10 minutes.

Ingredients

12g pandan leaves

100g water

25g water

20g beaten egg

40g fine sugar

4g fine salt

25g coconut/vegetable oil

270g Prima bread flour

30g Prima top/cake flour

6g milk powder

120g Herman Starter (7th day)

1g instant dry yeast

Some salted butter for glazing after baking

Directions

1. Stir a 7th day Herman Starter, and use it after about 2 to 5 hours.

Blend 12g of fresh pandan leaves with 100g  of water in a food processor into a smooth mixture. Collect 110g of the pandan leaf puree for later use. I didn't strain the pandan puree.

2. Pour all the dough ingredients into the bread pan following the sequence listed. Select C-11 Ferment Dough function, and start the program.

When the countdown timer reads 0:45, stop the program manually.

Take an empty plastic bag, lightly coated with oil, and transfer the dough into it.

Let the dough sit in room temperature for about 60 minutes.

1 hour later

Double seal the dough with another plastic bag, cover with a lid, and place in a fridge to undergo overnight cold fermentation. My dough took about 17 hours to undergo cold fermentation.

3. Take out the dough and thaw in room temperature for about 2 hours.

4. Transfer the dough to a well-floured work top, and deflate the dough. 

Fold in the four sides of the dough towards the centre.

Flip over the dough, cover with a lid, and let the dough rest for about 15 minutes.

5. While waiting, line a 29x10x7.5cm loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.

6. Roll out the dough into a rectangular shape, with the width corresponding to the length of the pan.

Roll in from both ends of the dough towards the centre.

Pinch to seal the meeting edges.

With the seam end facing down,

transfer the dough to the lined loaf pan. Spray some water,

cover with a kitchen towel, and let the dough proof for about 100 minutes, or till double in size.

7. Dust some bread flour over the top of the dough before baking.

Start from cold oven and raise the oven temperature to 120°C for 10 minutes

increase the temperature to 140°C for 10 minutes

further increase the temperature to 160°C for 10 minutes

finally increase the temperature to 170°C for 10 minutes, or till the bread is done.

end of baking

8. Remove the bread from the oven.

Lift the bread out of the pan immediately. And allow the bread to cool down on a cooling rack.

9. Slice the bread after the it has completely cool down. Enjoy 😋🍞