Alkaline bread is a common and popular bread in Germany. Although its shape is changeable, such as stirrup, sphere, olive, long stick and so on. The same point is that it is rich in aroma, dark brown in color, compact in texture and rich in taste, belonging to the chewy type. German soda bread is a kind of salty bread, which is different from the sweet bread we buy in domestic cake shops. It also has other names called "Bavarian soda bread", and you can tell it is salty bread when you hear the name. "Beer bread" is called beer bread. It is said that Germans love to drink beer.

Roll the loose dough into an oval shape, then roll it into a cylindrical shape, and knead it into a long strip about 50 cm thick in the middle and thin at both ends. Lift the two ends to cross twice and stick them on the dough staggered. This is a German knot. There are also many shapes of alkaline water bags, and the cross type is common in the market. Of course, there are other different shapes, such as round and olive. Therefore, we often say that German bread is a modeling classification of alkaline bread. As long as it conforms to the alkaline bread making process, it can be named after this name.

Medium gluten flour 1000g (gluten is 9~ 12%, and I use high gluten flour), 260ml of water, 260ml of milk, 80g of unsalted butter, and one tablespoon of maltose (I can substitute the same amount of honey or add one tablespoon of brown sugar). ), 2 tablespoons of salt (originally 2 tablespoons, too salty), 20g of yeast.

In the process of making bread, the process of soaking in alkaline water should be well grasped, and the proportion of alkaline water, the brewing time and the state of bread during brewing should be very accurate. Alkaline bread is a common and popular bread in Germany. Although its shape is changeable, such as stirrup, sphere, olive, long stick and so on. The same point is that it is rich in aroma, dark brown in color, compact in texture and rich in taste, belonging to the chewy type.