This yeast cake with a sugar topping is popular in the North,
which is sugar beet country. you can double the quantity of dough
and use half for ‘pain brioche’, a rich bread that the French like
to toast for breakfast.
Ingredients
Topping
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup light or dark brown sugar
Dough
1/3 cup of milk
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons yeast
1 1/2 cups flour (more as needed)
2 eggs
3/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons butter (soft)
Instructions
Make the yeast dough.
Put the lukewarm milk in a small bowl, add the sugar and add the yeast. Leave to proof.
Sift the flour on a marble slab or board and make a well in the centre. Add the
eggs, salt and dissolved yeast mixture. Briefly mix the central ingredients then draw
in the flour with both hands, pulling the dough into large crumbs with the fingertips.
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