Milk bread (Palace Hotel)
Milk bread recipe (2) from Maria Floris' 'Bakery, cakes and simple confectionery' (p. 30).
Notes
She says 'I have eaten very good milk bread in the Palace Hotel in St Moritz. All the food in the hotel was very good. I got this recipe from the manager of the confectionery department of the hotel kitchen under whose management everything had to be perfect. Now I give you her recipe:'
This one is a little more complex than recipe (1).
an additional 3.12% of diamalt powder can be added for flavor.
Dough bust be firm not hard after mixing all but the eggs, butter and diamalt. Beat eggs and diamalt together and add. Slowly add the butter while kneeding.
Rise instructions are not clear.
Bake at 184C for 30-40 minutes.
Ingredients
| Bakers % | 500g total | 1kg total | 2kg total | 3kg total | 4kg total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flour | 100% | 321 | 641 | 1282 | 1923 | 2564 |
| Milk | 27% | 87 | 173 | 346 | 519 | 692 |
| Egg | 12.79% | 41 | 82 | 164 | 246 | 328 |
| Butter | 12.5% | 40 | 80 | 160 | 240 | 321 |
| Yeast | 3.12% | 10 | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 |
| Salt | 1.96% | 6 | 13 | 25 | 38 | 50 |
| Sugar | 1.38% | 4.42 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 35 |
Percentage total: 156%
Values have been rounded where the error would not be significant (p < 0.05).
Last compiled at 2026-01-29 10:54:17.539898