"Justin's Salt Bread, a new bakery in New York City, serves only one food item. Its namesake pastry is a golden-brown horn, glossy-topped and with a glitter of salt. It tears apart to expose not the honeycomb interior of the ideal croissant, but wisps of bread around what some call salt bread's signature "butter hole" - the result of wrapping enriched dough around a butter block, which effectively fries the base as it bakes."
"The whole world is, increasingly, taking notice of salt bread. The trend swept Asia first; it originated in Japan, where it's known as shio pan, and gained traction in the mid-2010s. The Japanese bakery Pain Maison is one of the best-known sources of the style, as early as around 2014, and it's the main source of inspiration for Justin's, which cites the bakery on its packaging."
A New York City bakery called Justin's Salt Bread specializes exclusively in salt bread, selling a golden-brown horn with a glossy top and a glitter of salt. The pastry reveals wisps of bread surrounding a signature "butter hole" created by wrapping enriched dough around a butter block, which fries the base during baking and yields an especially crisp, brown bottom. Justin's offers minimal variations, serving the bread plain with optional small cups of sweet cream for dipping. The style originated in Japan as shio pan, spread to Korea as salt bread, and gained popularity across Asia before arriving in the U.S.
Read at Eater
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]