Main Ingredients:
Instant Yeast: 6g; Sugar: 54g; Water: 155ml; Salt: 6g; High Gluten Flour: 240g; Low Gluten Flour: 60g; Milk Powder: 12g; Improver: 4g; Whole Egg: 30g; Unsalted Butter: 30g; Diced Ham: as needed; White Sesame Seeds: as needed.
Flavor: Milky; Technique: Baking; Time: Several hours; Difficulty: Moderate.
Detailed Steps for Making Russian Ham Bread
Place Ingredient A in a bowl and mix well with a whisk.
Sift Ingredient B, create a flour wall on the cutting board, and pour in the mixed Ingredient A.
Add Ingredient C, mix in one direction with fingers to form a batter, then add Ingredient D and mix well.
Knead into a dough, knead until it reaches the stage where a thin film can be pulled out, place the dough in a container, cover with plastic wrap.
Perform basic fermentation until it doubles in size.
Remove the fermented dough, deflate, divide into 6 portions, round twice with a 5-minute rest between each round.
Take a portion of dough, flatten it, and wrap in diced ham.
Fold up 1/3 of the dough.
Add more diced ham on top.
Fold the other side up by 1/3 to form a triangle.
Fold the triangle from the top down.
Cut about halfway with a knife.
Thread the top of the triangle through the cut hole.
Pull out the top end.
Place the shaped dough in a baking pan, perform final fermentation until it is 1.5 times larger, brush the surface with beaten egg, sprinkle with some white sesame seeds, then bake. Baking: (temperature and time are for reference only, adjust according to your oven) Preheat the oven to 160 degrees and bake for 15 minutes.
