Sweet bread/special bread/milk bread from bangalore iyengar's bakery

Ingredients

• 1 Kg Maida (All Purpose Flour)/ 300-325 g
• 300 g Sugar 75 gms Sugar
• 100 g Milk powder 25 gms milk powder
• 10 g salt 2.5 g salt
• 150 g oil 37.5 g oil
• 10-15 g yeast 1 teaspoon yeast
• 1 litre of water 1 & 1/4 cup water

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Preparation

• In a bowl take 2 to 3 tablespoons of warm water and add yeast to it with a tsp of sugar, mix it up and allow it to froth up in a warm place. Take flour, milk powder, sugar and salt , mix them all together.
• Once the yeast froths up add it to the flour mixture and then the oil and mix it well. Then start adding water and make it into a dough.
• Knead for 10-15 minutes with the help of dipping your hand in the flour now & then. Keep the dough in a bowl, cover with a clean damp towel or pat a bit of oil to the dough so that it won't dry and cover the bowl with a cling film and leave it in a warm place until it rises doubled in size.
• Once it completely raises take it out, give a punch and handle the dough like a flower and knead it softly for an other 5 minutes.
• Shape the dough and place in greased tin or on a baking tray or however you always bake your breads, spray a little oil on the cling film and cover it again and leave it in a warm place once again and allow it to raise until doubled in volume, Once it is completely raised take the cling film out.
• Bake in an oven, preheated to 230 degrees C( 450 ° farenheit/ Gas mark 8) for 30-35 minutes. The baked loaf should sound hollow when tapped underneath.
• Take the loaf out of the tin and cool on a rack.