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A terrible beauty – brioche sticky buns
April 11th, 2010 at Sun, 11th, 2010 at 9:33 pm by dennisboxMade sticky buns today for my son Chris.
So good and so bad, but I must find some way to live my life through my children. He said the buns were great.
I spent two days making the buns, and I changed the process this time.
First I made brioche dough, around 3 to 4 cups of flour, couple sticks of butter and yeast. This time I used brown sugar for the molasses content and buttermilk for the complexity of flavor. I added a small amount of cinnamon and nutmeg.
After a couple of rises, I refrigerated overnight.
In the morning I rolled it out, put sugar and cinnamon with a small amount of all spice, rolled it up and cut into buns. I spread a butter and brown sugar caramel sauce on the bottom of the pan, placed the buns closely together. One more rise and cooked for 20 minutes.
Nuts, raisin and all sorts of things can be added.
A terrible beauty was born.
April 24, 1916 marks the date of the Irish rebellion. The day inspired W.B. Yeats’ poem “Easter 1916″ - and the line, “All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”
dennisbox Editor of the Maple Valley/Covington Reporter
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