What are you Baking the Week of January 15, 2023?

[aaronatthedoublef]

The shortbread bar I want to make is Millionaire shortbread which is shortbread with caramel with chocolate on top. Maybe it was the inspiration for KitKats. When it is good it is great. It's made it over to the US but I had it in Scotland in 1999 (first trip there with my then girlfriend Kate!). Now it's easy to find recipes. I think they used to use it as an enticement to have kids eat their haggis.

Made regular sandwich bread yesterday. I've stopped working on batards and gone back to pan loaves. And I cut the time down from three days to one to try and tame the sour which most of my family doesn't like.

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[aaronatthedoublef]

Re-reading about the acid...

Is that why milk powder helps? Does it add lactic acid without adding liquid?

[Mike Nolan]

Shortbread with caramel and chocolate sounds more like Twix than KitKat.

Milk is slightly acetic so I suspect milk powder is also slightly acetic, but I think it is the milk sugar (lactose), fat (if not fat-free) and possibly some milk protein that makes the bread softer.

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