Pullman bread recipe sandwich loaf

Pain de mie is a French sandwich bread with four square corners baked in a Pullman loaf pan. I made this loaf with fresh milled four using a mock mill, but I also use store bought plain flour!

The Pullman loaf is the quintessential white sandwich loaf. The name "Pullman" comes from its use in the kitchens of the Pullman Company's railway cars of the 1800s, and, the Pullman company is credited with inventing the rectangular-shaped lidded baking pans (which coincidentally resembled the shape of the railroad cars). Baking bread in a pan with a lid is, functionally a bit different than baking bread in an open-topped pan, which, of course, affects the crumb structure. The confined…

It has been quite a long time, over two and a half years, since I have posted about food in this blog. Mostly, it has been because I have been so concentrated on other hobbies and just getting my PhD … Continued

Well, hey! I figure now that it's April and we've all clearly gotten over carb-banning early months of the new year, that we can get real once again and talk about the good stuff in life. Like bread. And let's just go all in here and talk white bread. YOLOOOOOOO.

For Peggy Wolff's Pullman bread recipe, baking in specially designed square tin pans helps to create loaves with minimal crust.

Soft Sandwich Milk Bread (Tangzhong) is soft and light. It's enriched with milk and eggs so it's full of flavor. It slices beautifully, too.

This recipes fits a 13-14" Pullman Pan. Easier ingredient list than the King Arthur Flour recipe. I mix it in my ABM, then shape and set in the pan for the second rise. You can hand knead or use your mixer. I get 20 slices out of this recipe. A favorite for sandwiches and toast. You don't have to use the Pullman pan, and if you don't, use two 8" loaf pans and get two nice puffy loaves.

Today we use the French classic brioche dough to make a sandwich bread or brioche loaf also know as brioche pain de mie in French using a Pullman loaf pan.

This recipe is for the sturdy, ultimately defining, classic Pullman Sandwich Loaf.

INTRODUCTION I stumbled across this recipe in a cooking discussion forum and I am unsure where did the poster get the recipe form, therefore, I am unable to credit it to the source of the recipe pr…