# Salt Bread

Salt Bread is described as the most elite bread, a cross between a croissant and a dinner roll, with a fried and crispy bottom due to butter melting out as it bakes.

- Cuisine: French
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Bread flour
- Cake flour
- Instant non-fat dry milk
- Sea salt
- Butter
- Water

## Instructions

1. Add bread flour, cake flour, instant non-fat dry milk, salt, and sugar into a mixing bowl.
2. Add ice water to the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl.
3. Mix the dough using a stand mixer.
4. Add butter to the dough while mixing.
5. Knead the dough until it passes the windowpane test.
6. Form the dough into a tight, smooth ball.
7. Place the dough in a bowl, cover it, and let it rise until it doubles in size.
8. Cut salted butter into individual chunks for each roll.
9. Once the dough has risen, punch it down.
10. Portion the dough into 80-gram pieces using a dough scraper and kitchen scale.
11. Roll and smooth out each dough piece into a ball.
12. Let the dough balls bench rest for about 15 minutes.
13. Roll each dough ball into a long, tadpole shape, slightly pulling the bottom and top parts as you roll them flat.
14. Place a chunk of butter at the top of the flattened dough and roll it, slightly tugging as you roll.
15. Place the shaped dough onto a baking tray.
16. Let the shaped dough rise one last time.
17. Spray the risen dough with water and sprinkle with salt.
18. Bake the bread in the oven until golden brown and the butter has melted out, frying and crisping up the bottom.

## Equipment

- Ooni mixer
- Dough scraper
- Kitchen scale
- Rolling pin
- Baking tray
- Oven

## Tips

- Use salted butter because salt makes things taste good.
- The bottom of the bread is essentially fried in the butter that was rolled into the bread as it bakes.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOvtP26DZp4/?igsh=c3lleDFmMG5rZzhz
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/462b66bd-baf0-46a7-b4e3-92d2ccc60ad0
- Extracted: 2025-10-04

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