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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have how to make croissants using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make How to make croissants:
- Get 500 g good bread floor
- Get 140 ml water
- Make ready 140 ml milk
- Make ready 55 g suger
- Get 40 g soft butter
- Get 10 g instant yeast or 30g fresh yeast or 60g starter
- Prepare 12 g fine sea salt
- Prepare 280 g unsalted butter (cold)
- Get 1 egg for glazing
Unlike most yeasted doughs that require warm liquid to activate the yeast, you're going to use cold milk. The yeast will work its magic later on in the recipe. In the beginning steps of croissants, the dough should always be cold. Whisk together egg and milk in a small bowl.
Instructions to make How to make croissants:
- Day 1 - Place all dry ingredients into a bowl and mix together. Make a well and add the butter and liquid. Bring together then place onto a floured surface. Work the dough lightly for about 3 minutes. You don't want to over work the dough as it will be harder to incorporate the butter on the next day. Push the dough down to form a flat disk place onto a lightly floured tray, cover and place into the fridge for at least 8 hours and up to 12.
- Day 2 - 1 hour before you take the dough from fridge. Get your butter and pound it with a rolling pin to make it nice and flat. For the easiest method, place the butter between two pieces of parchment paper and gently pound until square and flat about 1/4". Place back into the fridge. Take your dough out of the fridge and place onto a lightly floured surface. Pin out to form a square. Then pin each side out so you have an envelope, 4 thin corners and a slightly raised centre piece.
- Roll out dough into a large rectangle - * make the butter layer (I have an easy trick for this!!!) - * enclose the butter layer inside the dough Place back into the fridge and rest for 1 hour.
- Day 3 - - * roll out the dough into another large rectangle, then fold it back together - * roll out the dough again, fold it back together again - * roll out the dough one more time, fold it back together - * shape the croissants - * bake😋😉
In the beginning steps of croissants, the dough should always be cold. Whisk together egg and milk in a small bowl. Brush croissants lightly with egg mixture, using a paper towel to wipe away excess. Reserve remaining egg mixture in refrigerator. Once the oven is heated, put one tray of croissants on the top rack of the oven and the other on the bottom rack vertically.
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