If I had to name a food that my family is particularly attached to, I’d probably say it was bread. Not just any bread… but freshly baked, awesome bread. It’s tough to resist eating half a loaf of something like that all in one sitting. This bread dough is infused with butter- a whole stick of butter. It’s lightly sweetened, but the essence of the baked loaf is buttery and the added egg helps with the rich flavor too.
This recipe come from a cookbook by Donna Currie: Make Ahead Bread: 100 Recipes for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Fresh Bread Every Day (Taunton Press- copyright 2014). This book is focused on teaching the home cook how to make all sorts of flavorful yeast breads using an easy 2-step process of mixing, kneading and chilling on day one and baking on day 2. Here are a few recipes that I’ve bookmarked to make: Rustic Sourdough Bread, Oatmeal- Honey Date Loaf, Savory Monkey Bread, Blueberry and Cream Cheese Buns with Lemon Zest, Cinnamon Swirl Bread, Gluten Free Dinner Rolls, Honey Potato Buns, Sourdough English Muffins, Nutella Swirl Rolls, Whole Wheat Pita Bread, Whole Wheat and Parmesan Pizza Crust and Chocolate Croissants. There are a few recipes at the end of the book that call for leftovers of the bread recipes that are made in the book… and also a few recipes for butters and spreads. It’s a great book to add to your cookbook collection if you’ve been wanting to bake more bread from scratch.
It’s important to note that I’m not much of a bread baker. Sure, I bake banana bread and other quick breads quite often… but yeast breads aren’t something I make every week. I’m perfectly capable of making yeast breads, so I have no excuse to offer. And every time I make a loaf like this, I’m perfectly pleased with the result. As it turns out, they are never as difficult to make as you think they are.
This recipe is most easily made in a stand mixer because the butter really needs to be incorporated well into the dough (doing that by hand might be a jolly mess). The way the recipe works: prep, rising and refrigeration overnight… then bake the next day. Baking happened this morning for my loaf, and my family enjoyed toasted slices topped with a little bit of jam. I sent my son off to school today with a peanut butter + jelly sandwich made with this Egg and Butter Loaf too. We were all pleasantly surprised with this beautiful loaf of bread. It’s a great recipe!
Here are a few more bread recipes you might enjoy:
Multigrain Bread by Our Best Bites Sweet Challah Bread by RecipeGirl Homemade Potato Bread by Simply Recipes Honey Whole Wheat Bread by RecipeGirl
