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Plain Butter Croissant
Built around bread flour and cold milk -- the method starts by mixing the flour.

Anchored by bread flour, cold milk and sugar, this bakery dish starts by mixing the flour and comes together in about 20 minutes -- the kind of advanced recipe that earns a permanent spot in the rotation.
Ready in 20 minutes -- genuinely doable on a weeknight.
A more involved technique that rewards patience with real depth of flavor.
Built around bread flour, so the flavor comes from real ingredients, not a spice packet.
Ingredients
- 4 cups bread flour
- 1 1/4 cups cold milk
- plus 5 more ingredients
Method
Mix the flour, milk, sugar, yeast, and salt into a soft dough, then chill it flat 1 hour.
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