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International Recipe : Basic Bread Dough

Ingredients:

• 500g high protein flour, sifted
  
• 6g bread improver, sifted
  
• 20g milk powder, sifted
  
• 75g castor sugar
  
• 6g salt
  
• 8g instant active dry yeast
  
• 1 grade A egg, lightly beaten
  
• 270ml water or milk (do not use milk powder)
  
• 60g butter, softened

Directions:

1. Mix sifted ingredients, castor sugar and salt with dough hook in an electric mixer on low speed for a minute.
2. Mix in yeast. Add egg and water or milk and mix on low speed for 1 minute. Mix on medium speed for eight minutes before mixing in the butter. Mix five minutes more on medium speed until the dough is smooth, elastic, and no longer sticky.
3. Shape dough into a ball. Cover and rest for 10 minutes.
4. Divide dough into 17 portions of 55g each. Shape each portion into a ball, then leave to rest, covered, for 10 minutes.
5. Flatten each portion of dough into a round.