Hokkaido milk bread

Milk bread uses a tangzhong method to create an extra fluffy bread.

This Hokkaido milk bread makes a fantastic sandwich bread. It’s a slightly sweet bread reminiscent of brioche but not as rich and much more fluffy.

A tangzhong method cooks a small amount of flour in milk or water into a thick paste. What this does is it pre-gelatinizes the starches in the flour so that they can absorb more water. Flour can absorb twice …