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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