Hass Bread with Raw Cane Sugar | Tea-Scented and Tender

Hass bread, tea-scented and tender

Hass bread is the classic four-cut tea bread, named for the diagonal scoring across the top that opens during the bake. Our version starts with black tea steeped in milk, then a dough enriched with Ship Brand Raw Cane Sugar, butter, and a brushed condensed milk wash on top.

Raw cane sugar is what gives this bread its rounded sweetness. White sugar would be too plain; brown sugar would muddy the tea. Ship Brand Raw Cane Sugar is unrefined just enough to carry a hint of molasses without overpowering the black tea.

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Why this sugar

Made with Ship Brand Raw Cane Sugar 原蔗糖. Natural unrefined cane sugar that rounds out tea breads. Shop the sugar.

Recipe

Yield: 4 Hass buns. Total: 3 hours including proof.

Ingredients

• 3 g black tea powder
• 150 g milk, warm
• 200 g bread flour
• 25 g Ship Brand Raw Cane Sugar
• 2 g instant yeast
• 15 g softened butter
• 3 g salt
• 5 g condensed milk + 5 g milk for wash

Directions

1. Steep tea powder in warm milk 10 minutes.
2. Mix flour, sugar, yeast. Pour in tea milk, knead 5 min until smooth.
3. Add butter and salt, knead to window-pane.
4. First proof 28C for 60 min until doubled.
5. Degas, divide 4, rest 20 min.
6. Roll flat, fold thirds, pinch seam, place seam-down on tray.
7. Second proof 36C for 30 min.
8. Score 5 diagonal cuts. Brush condensed milk wash.
9. Bake 170/180C for 20 min.
10. Cool 15 min on rack.

Ship Brand (帆船牌) is the retail line of Yuen Tung Sugar Factory Industrial Company Limited. Sugar refined in Hong Kong since 1948. Shop the collection.