You are probably familiar with the famous phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: “Let them eat cake!”. She actually meant Brioche, bread enriched with butter, sugar and eggs. This is what we did this Pastry-Monday. I wasn’t that enthusiastic to make bread but it turned out to be very fun and funny to make. See the video and understand why!
We got pears again but this time a bit damaged. 🙁
Brioche molds
Eggs! of course!
Make two fountains in the flour. Small and big one
Fresh yeast go to the small and salt+sugar go to the big one
Dissolved in warm water
Add 6 eggs to the big fountain, start work the eggs in the flour mixing with the yeast only last minute.
Very very sticky dough. Has to be kneaded a long time
Until it won't stick to the the marble or to the fingers.
That was the funniest part, because it kept sticking everywhere and flying around the kitchen. My fingers were covered with dough but I captured this rare video for you to see how it went:
Then when it was less sticky we added the butter. 200g of butter. Now it's sticky again.
Kneaded again.
The dough is ready. By the book it has to rise twice but we didn't have time so we barly let it rise one time.
Start using the dough to make brioche goodness
Third cut out
Cooking some sausage with pistachio
Rolling inside the dough
My dough filled with sausage, decorated
Pears are pealed and cut
Butter and sugar in a pan
Caramel forming
Throw in the pears
Lemon grass cooked in water with sugar
Lemon grass syrup added to the caramelized pears
Set aside
Forming a tart from the brioche dough
Roll a thin coil
Stick it to the base with egg wash
Pears arranged rose shape
Cutting the edges of the tart with scissors
My version
Made the spikes too small :/
Making a classic brioche
Brioche à tête - When it's in the brioche mold with a "head" over the big brioche body
I braided all the dough I had left and sprinkled with rock sugar
Let it rise for 15 min in 25-30 degrees. Should be longer but we were in a hurry
In the oven, the smell in the kitchen is intense
Almost there, flipping trays to get a balanced bake to everyone
Pear-Caramel-lemongrass tart on a brioche
Brioche filled with pistachio sausage
Brioche braided bread
Brioche à tête
Chef's creations of the day
Very cool brioche!
yumi yumi!
וכל זה בעצם לחם!! מצא חן בעיני הסרט על הגזירה עם המספרים של השף חשבתי שזה יצא כמו שיבולת אבל גם אצל השף זה לא כלכך נראה שיבולת בסוף