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Put the flour into a bowl. If you are using a Kitchen Aid you can put it into that mixing bowl.
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Mix 2 teaspoons of salt with flour.
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Make an indentation into the middle of flour.
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Pour 1 dl milk into a cup (microwavable)
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Add 2 tsp sugar into the milk, stir well.
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Heat milk for 30 seconds in the microwave.
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Add 21 grams yeast into the milk and stir well.
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Pour yeast into the indentation in the flour.
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Let the yeast sit for 10 minutes.
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Cut butter into small pieces.
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Put pieces into a pan and melt on medium heat.
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Add 6 dl milk to the melted butter; make sure butter is lukewarm.
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Go back to your flour and yeast and now put the bowl into the mixer and mix on the lowest setting.
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Add the melted butter to the dough while mixing.
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Let mix for 10 minutes.
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Loosen the dough from the bowl and put a wet cloth over the dough. Make sure it is loose to allow room for rising.
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Let sit for one hour.
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Pre heat oven to 425(f).
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Separate dough into two pieces. Each piece will make a single loaf of bread.
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With one of the pieces, separate it into two sections and roll them out and a floured surface. You want to roll them so the middle is the thickest and the ends are slightly narrower.
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Fold dough --
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*start by putting one roll vertically and one on top of it horizontally.
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*fold top part down to bottom (left).
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*fold bottom part to top (right).
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*fold left part to right (top).
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*fold right part to left (bottom).
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*repeat- at end, join parts together.
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Separate an egg yolk from the egg white.
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Break the yolk and add a drop of half and half or heavy cream (optional).
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Use food brush to spread yolk on dough- avoid crevices.
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Put dough into oven with small bowl of water. Put dough on wax paper to prevent the bread from sticking.
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After 10 min., set temperature of oven down to 395(F) for 20 minute.
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Take out of oven. The bread is done.
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Let cool on a cooling rack and enjoy!
