Milk Bread

Millichbrod

Preparation info
  • 16 to 20

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1993

  • About

Millichbrod is what good bread should be by definition. It is the white bread that once made Pennsylvania Dutch bakers so universally admired in this country, and its revival is long overdue.

When molded into a stollen-shaped Feschtleeb (celebration loaf), there was no white bread of greater esteem on the Pennsylvania German table, for this was the honorary white bread of weddings, baptisms, and funerals. It was the white part of this bread that yielded the crumbs for