Making a French brioche recipe - baking in my farmhouse in France

[@SherrylSmart]

I always love your videos. In the USA we call it French Toast

[@jeannet9592]

I noticed the pretty and unique cooling rack too!

[@moyyoung111]

Thank you for sharing your home, thought process and recipe making. You have a beautiful home and well made video. Inspiring 🤗☀️🌻💕

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you so much!

[@jeannet9592]

Fresh bread is just so good. I loved how you smelled it a few times! When I make yeast dough my daughter come by and gives it a whiff while it's mixing.

[@VictorSánchez-z1y]

Aca hago yo pero gorbo de barro

[@davidmiller-br4bu]

Brioche my favourite ..never any left for French toast 😊

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I can understand! I had to tell my boys to not eat it all!

[@kaytiemcd4331]

When I was a little girl, my Mom made me buttered toasted bread with her homemade bread, just like your Grandma made for you. It was called Kay's French Toast. You brought back a wonderful memory today. Thank you so much.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Oh yes my grandmother's toasted bread was divine! So simple, using only pure ingredients. Happy to have shared that memory of our beloved grandmothers together!

[@sdmsdm7926]

looks delicious! I will give this a try.

[@zaram131]

Your kitchen is BEAUTIFUL ❤️

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you!! 😊

[@phildwyer1488]

We always call that French toast! Yummy

[@andreaault6215]

Yes, in the US we call that French Toast when you coat it with egg and cinammon and toast it, then add berries and maybe powdered sugar and syrup which makes it super sweet!

[@CoralIWood]

My mom and grandma always added a little vanilla extract to the egg and milk mixture. Highly recommend!

[@mariafusco7899]

My family would dip bread in egg and fry it in olive oil. One could make it savory or spicy for breakfast. Thank you for an inspiring video!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

My pleasure!

[@deborahditaranto]

In the US, it’s called ‘French Toast’ « Pain perdu » 🍞. Adoro i tuoi video: sono molto rilassanti dopo una lunga settimana di lavoro. Merci beaucoup!

[@leslieW5177]

When Olaf took the hot brioche from the oven, my first thought was how adorable is that cooling rack. Then you shared that it was a gift which makes it even more special. Definitely will try the bread, thank you.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you! That gift felt so special ❤️

[@Frenchcountryfriends]

Mouth watering Marloes! ❤

[@darlenechandler2403]

Called French Toast in Canada and we add the fruit and maple syrup and it is delicious.

[@Auntie7024]

Your brioche looks so delicious. Thank you for sharing the recipe. We would sprinkle with cinnamon and add maple syrup or berries and call it French toast! ❤

[@amykingery8577]

What a sweet gift

[@josettedarphin1882]

super la brioche

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Merci

[@Frenchcountrysidediary]

That brioche looks so delicious, well done!!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you 😋

[@danielakulhanova3569]

Thanks for sharing! What a good idea! And your kitchen...Perfection! I would spread simply a butter on it as you did .-)

[@joanrojas9084]

That was fun and inspiring Marloes. Have you ever considered preparing all of the recipes in your cook book on your channel? I love to watch you cook and see how you style a plate/tray. Always exquisite! I have your cookbook and love it - but I would love to see you cook the recipes in it as well - if you’d be interested - I would be as well!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I have cooked many of them in various videos already but I wouldn’t be able to tell you which recipe is in which video

[@joanrojas9084]

@ Yes, that’s right. I’ll go back and find them.

[@lawrencebox919]

I made the baguettes yesterday which turned out amazing so I will making the brioche tomorrow!! Can’t wait! Thanks so much. 👩‍🍳 🥖 ❤

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Oh that is great news!! You'll be your own French Bakery! :)

[@melissaeden1219]

Love the French Toast from a brioche!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

It is delicious!

[@Carin_de_levensingenieur]

Ow wat een heerlijk idee voor onze zondagse gezinsbrunch! Ga ik eens uitproberen 😊.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Het is heerlijk!

[@DeborahGouge-z6d]

I love the recipe and the French lessons! ❤

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thank you! 😃

[@jeanfowler1425]

Can’t wait to try it!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Let me know how you liked it!

[@nadine1818]

OMG. Mouth watering here on the other side of France. I’ll be making this this weekend. Thank you for sharing this recipe! 🇫🇷

[@FrenchCountryLife]

let me know how you liked it!

[@FrenchFifi65]

Your kitchen is gorgeous and the bread is beautiful as well:) thanks for sharing!

[@kochenundbacken70]

I like your recipes 😍Looking forward to see more

[@barber0611]

we call it french toast in the USA....looks delicious!....I bet the Brioche would make an amazing Strata!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I am afraid there will never be enough of it left in this household to make strata! :)

[@pattypost2520]

Definitely going to try this out! 😋

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Let me know how you liked it!

[@TheTeachingCouple]

Bonjour :) The brioche looks delicious 😋 We're going to try this recipe! Thanks for sharing xx

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Let me know how you liked it!

[@cathtube59]

That Brioche looks amazing and with the help of a KitchenAid, not too difficult! In the US, we call what you made at the end French Toast 😊. I usually add a bit of vanilla and cinnamon to the egg & milk mixture before soaking the bread. It is typically served with maple syrup, but I also like it with blueberries or sliced banana. Will be trying this recipe! Merci!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes banana is really nice with it too! Have you ever made brioche yourself before?

[@cathtube59]

⁠@@FrenchCountryLife I have not made brioche before, but I want to try it. Lots more baking of all types is on my agenda when I retire and move to Italy later this year!

[@theresajohnson6684]

Living in America I always use Brioche for as we call French toast very similar to what you did with fruit thank you for sharing your recipe

[@FrenchCountryLife]

You are so welcome!

[@jokehalmans8872]

Inderdaad, herinnert aan de wentelteefjes van vroeger. Ziet er heerlijk uit, dus ga ik ook proberen. 🧡

[@ymwyoyo-p6w]

Hi, You could make a bread and butter pudding with those brioche slices. Yum, yum, yum.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Good idea! The issue in this household is that there is never much left :)

[@hanneliewiese3477]

Yummy !!!!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

So good!

[@MarySchlotter]

This was so fun to watch. Such a warm and comforting scent in the air when bread is baking. My mother would do the same dipping the brioche in egg and milk toasting it in butter in a pan then she would butter it and sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. So delicious. Her mother was Irish her father was from Canada and she was named Annabelle . Her first cookbook after she married my father was Escoffier . She must have embraced French cooking as I reflect back to what she would prepare. So I imagine I have been influenced by her and why I’m a bit of a Francophile as they say. She passed 2 years ago ( miss her so) and I have her treasured Escoffier cookbook. Also I have her beautiful little molds for making Cannelés , there is a recipe in her book to make them. Have you ever made it and have you seen the molds in any of your brocante visits ?Thank you.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thanks for sharing! Yes I have seen the molds for cannelés here in a brocante shop in Autun! You can also buy them new here. I am not a fan of cannelés I really don’t like the taste of the rhum that’s in them.

[@MarySchlotter]

@ Thank you, I have not made them as yet nor have I tasted them I was hoping you had 😊 I will make them soon and I will share with you my thoughts.

[@cherrylwegner6292]

Hi Marloes ,,,,I make mine with a little real maple syrup and cinnamon mixed into the egg mixture , then served with more maple syrup whipped cream and berries . We here in Canada call it french bread ....thanks for sharing this lovely video .......Cherryl from Canada

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thanks for sharing! I find it gets too sweet when adding maple syrup but I do put that on the toast when I serve it to our guests.

[@lesliefleming6634]

In Canada we call it French Toast and we eat it with Maple Syrup!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes I realized that’s what it’s called in English! I add maple syrup for guests too but I find it too sweet for myself

[@petebartlett2229]

Great vlog. In England it’s called eggy bread!!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Oh I've never heard of that! Thanks for sharing!

[@kathycourtney2]

we call it French toast , we dip the bread in egg, milk and vanilla , maybe cinnamon and toast on stove. We usually use molasses or maple syrup on top or fruit

[@cindyenglert.az51]

It looks delicious. I thought you were going to make French toast. When I’ve made brioche and used it for breakfast I add berries and maple syrup. This is American French toast. 😀

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Sounds great!

[@annemiekvandorp4457]

Hi Marlous, dat ziet er weer heerlijk uit! Zelf maak ik wel eens Eggs Benedict met gerookte zalm. De variant met bacon zal ik je besparen ;-) Beterschap met je allergie! ❤

[@theresechenoweth2321]

Ha, I am glad to see that you make different sized balls like I do. It seems impossible to get them the same!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

haha, yes! And I was in a hurry and a little difference really doesn't matter!

[@mariaetheridge8343]

Wentelteefjes = French Toast. Love it with cinamon sugar. 😊

[@jangriffiths8013]

We call it "French Toast" in Canada, and pour maple syrup and fruit over the top!

[@deltafaycruickshank8083]

We like it with plain yogurt, sliced banana and maple syrup

[@PamMonsignori]

Can't wait to try this! Would you mind sharing the color of the "zellie" tiles that you talked about in your kitchen tour? Blanc perhaps? Thanks so much!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

It’s the blanc at Leroy Merlin but I am not sure if they haven’t changed their collection a bit. Looked like it last time I was there.

[@moirarizzardo]

Il mio è venuto benissimo

[@deltafaycruickshank8083]

In Canada we call it French Toast. I put a dash of cinnamon in the egg.

[@amykingery8577]

A little drizzle of Lyle’s golden syrup is sweet, but tasty

[@ulrichweber5215]

Marloes, you need to dissolve the dried yeast in the milk and sugar before

[@FrenchCountryLife]

No not needed! I use it like this all the time and it works perfectly. This is the kind you can use like this.

[@travel4201]

Excellente chaine Hervé Cuisine...Julie Andrieu partage aussi des recettes sur sa chaine personnelle :)

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Ah je connaissais pas encore, merci!

[@VictorSánchez-z1y]

1 el 2 francia.no entiendo nada pero para la cocina el idioma visual y del olor todos conocemos las cosas rica che

[@billwilson1320]

I like your cooking videos. I would like to find the video you made making bread with spelt flour, but I can't remember when it was?

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Oh, I have made that several times but wouldn’t know which video. What I do these days is mix 500g wholegrain spelt flour with a bar of dry yeast (7g), 10g of salt and 360ml of lukewarm water (but definitely not too warm!). I roughly mix that and leave it to rise for about an hour. Then I do stretch and folds and leave the dough to rise for 8 to 12 hours. I prepare the dough in the evening and let it rise overnight on the kitchen counter. In the morning I shape it into a loaf, cover it in some flour and leave it while I preheat my oven with a dutch oven in it to 240 Celsius. When the Dutch oven is hot, I place the loaf in it (on parchment paper), put it in the oven, lower the temperature to 220 and bake it for 30 minutes with the lid on. Then I remove the lid and bake it fir another 20 minutes. Turns out great every time!

[@billwilson1320]

@@FrenchCountryLife Thank you. I'll give it a go. Merci 😊

[@BelJacky]

Au Québec, nous appelons pain doré ce que vous appelez pain perdu. Nous le mangeons souvent avec du sirop d'érable et des fruits.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Oui je le sets avec du sirop d’érable à nos hôtes!

[@marco.mennenga]

Wentelteefjes!! A real childhood memory although my mother made it with old plain white bread or casino white. Nice and soggy with cinnamon and sugar. Funny making French toast in France. Luckily no “Stone coal english” like “rolling bitches”😮 as it translates directly from Dutch😂😂 Groeten uit Zwolle! 🇳🇱🇫🇷

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I didn't even try to translate that :) haha!

[@clarkmadrosen1780]

Sounds like Hawaiian sweet 🍞 😊

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I don’t know that?

[@darquisekrysciak8732]

🥰🇨🇦

[@theresechenoweth2321]

I see you keep the egg shells. What do you do with them? Do you bake them in the oven to dry out then grind them up for use in the garden? The ground shells are pure calcium, which is very good for all plants, but tomatoes in particular. Citrus also loves the calcium.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I actually haven't done that yet. I have heard you don't necessarily need to bake them but can wash them and crunch them and put them in your garden like that? Is there are reason to bake them first?

[@MoniqueDiCarlo]

Noemen we hier in de US French toast 😀 by the way, vorig jaar vroeg ik jou over je boek en hoe je het gemaakt hebt. Ik ben super trots dat mijn Thailand boek was launched on Amazon net voor de Kerst. Het was heel veel werk maar nu al bezig met mijn volgende boek!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Hey wat goed!! Congratulations on getting your book out!!

[@Aquarii_Katie]

Ooh English name is French Toast ❤❤

[@Joanna-ks2xp]

We call that French toast.

[@loulou6396]

I find it funny, as others have already commented, we (here in the US) call bread dipped in egg & milk & then fried, 'French Toast.' I've heard (on other vlogs) that some Brits refer to it as "eggy bread." When I make it, I often top it off with ricotta cheese mixed with a little vanilla & sugar -- the same type of mix you find in cannoli. Then, I jokingly refer to it as my French/Italian Fusion Bread. 😉 Changing subjects ... I wondered if you'd consider doing a little bit of a French lesson in some of your episodes. For instance, if you would say a few sentences in French, and then the same in English -- maybe even caption the French with the written words -- that would be great! My high school French from many years ago was focused mainly on the printed words. I find I can pick up a bit when reading. But in conversational dialogue, I get completely lost. If you would do that I, for one, would really appreciate it! Thanks!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thanks for sharing! I could do that... there are however many really good KZbin channels that focus on teaching French that you may want to watch as well!

[@kristinedunkleman8767]

Looks great. We call it ,you will laugh, French Toast. My favorite breakfast.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes I realized that later that that is what it’s called! 😇

[@paivitiitta1884]

In Finland we call this bread dipped in egg "poor knight".

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Really? Thanks for sharing! I think my grandfather also called old bread cooked in butter in a skillet “riddertjes” which means little knights. He ate it in his soup

[@esthermalone2318]

Bonjour 💋brioche 😋delicieux mon prefere’ merci’🥚🍞 🧈 💛

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Avec plaisir 😊

[@kfx216]

Another American chiming in to say we call it French Toast. Go figure! It's nice to make it as you do, but as a kid I always made French toast or pancakes Sunday mornings for my younger brothers, and we all ate it swimming in maple syrup!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes thank you! I know it is common to put maple syrup on it but it makes it too sweet for me!

[@patriciawahr7691]

In America we call it French toast

[@graceveenema4762]

French toast! Needs a bit of Canadian maple syrup and some bacon! 🇨🇦

[@FrenchCountryLife]

I find it too sweet with maple syrup but I indeed put that on them when I serve them to guests!

[@theresechenoweth2321]

Are berries expensive? Raspberries and blueberries always seems fairly expensive in Australia.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

They are, especially when not in season, like now. But I do eat them for the nutrients they contain, even though I eat in mostly in season for other things.

[@amykingery8577]

I use egg, milk and a little cinnamon at that time

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Sounds great too to add the cinnamon in the mixture!

[@cindiblazer8621]

Oh good grief, wear your hair however you want. Love your videos

[@amykingery8577]

Do you offer French language classes on line? I would take that class..

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Yes I do! I offer private French classes on Zoom! If you want to look at that, you can send me an email on [e-mail] I currently have room for one more student!

[@amykingery8577]

@FrenchCountryLife fantastic!!!!!

[@amykingery8577]

I enjoy brioch, but my husband does not, so I mostly make regular bread…

[@RivkaPotchebutzkyArt]

It would be nice if you woud tie up your hair or hold it with a rubbon so it will not desturb you when you are backing. It also gives a more clean feeling when we are watching you backing.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts but I have addressed this before in an earlier video. I tie my hair up when I bake or cook for guests but I do not like it so I don't do it when cooking for my family. And I am sorry if it disturbs you and it doesn't look clean to watch :)

[@tanianogueira6082]

Poderia prender a juba né minha filha.

[@FrenchCountryLife]

No thanks

[@rickgreen9936]

and he cooks too...OK Olav 8:21 you do speak English, but you snuck it in on another channel. More to come on Aan de Franse slag? I might know the answer🤔

[@NatalieDouguet]

Je voudrais vraiment essayer cette recette, mais je ne sais pas combien mettre de lait et de beurre.... Cette voix IA en français désespére, je préfère vous écouter en anglais

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Je suis désolée mais je ne sais pas du tout d’où vient cette voix? C’est peut-être un truc récent sur KZbin? En tout cas, je n’ai rien fait pour qu’il y ait une voix. La recette est dans la description sous la vidéo

[@FrenchCountryLife]

Voici: Ingredients: 500g flour 80g butter 80g sugar 200ml milk pinch of salt 1 bag of instant yeast (7g) 3 eggs all at room temperature Mix the sugar, milk, 2 eggs, sugar and salt in the bowl of your KitchenAid but use a hand mixer first to just mix these wet ingredients. Then add the flour and mix it shortly using your KitchenAid this time just a few seconds. Then add the yeast and mix for 6 to 7 minutes at low speed. Increase the speed and mix for another 5 minutes. Then add the butter in cubes and mix at low speed for 8 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap or a wet tea towel and set aside to rise for 90 minutes. After this rising time, press the air out of the dough using your fingers. Transfer the dough to a floured surface and cut into 8 pieces. Form 8 little balls and put them in a greased baking mold / tin. Set to rise for 45 minutes. Pre-heat your oven to 180 Celsius. Mix the third egg with a pinch of salt and brush this on top of the brioche. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

[@NatalieDouguet]

Merci beaucoup

[@JudeWright-nk2dt]

Although I thank u for teaching us, i find it very helpful BUT even before u started to talk, I thought to myself “I hope she puts her hair in a pony” u did not 🥴 perhaps u’ve never ordered, received food to see a strand of 🤦🏻‍♀️ I can’t go on, I think u get the picture! PLEASE teach the importance of clean hands n hair covered or at least pulled back!

[@FrenchCountryLife]

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