We visited Kuma-San Bakehouse in Matlock to try Britain's Best Loaf 2025.
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00:00Can you tell me a bit more about the loaf which won Britain's Best Loaf Award this year?
00:05This is lemon and earl grey loaf.
00:10So basically this is a soft brioche dough and I mixed it with earl grey tea and also
00:23Italian peel soaked in a limoncello so it smells fruity and to make a little bit of an accent
00:33I put some white chocolate inside too and I flavoured this loaf with a lot of lemon juice
00:41and butter and sugar so it was very streng and lemony.
00:48The combination of earl grey tea, the fragrance of earl grey tea and lemony flavour combined
00:55very good complement each other and make a lovely fragrant flavour.
01:01What was the hardest part of making this loaf?
01:04This most difficult bit is to make the dough softer because I put a lot of lemon juice in
01:10this bread meaning the dough becomes very very hard and tighten.
01:18That's why I made a lot of effort to make sure the dough is soft like a fluffy brioche loaf.
01:26We are at a Kumasan bakehouse today trying Britain's Best Loaf.
01:31So it's lemon and earl grey loaf with some bit of sugar on top.
01:36So I'm just going to try some of this.
01:39Hope you like it.
01:42It is very fluffy as you can see.
01:44Yeah, that's a brioche, Japanese brioche.
01:52That's really lovely.
01:53You like it?
01:54Yeah, I love it.
01:55It's a very floral because of the earl grey but it's also quite lemony and it's so soft
02:04it basically melts in your mouth.
02:07It's amazing.
02:08That's Japanese technique, making the soft fluffy bun.
02:12So it's infused with tea when you make it?
02:16Well, basically I put the tea leaves into the dough.
02:20That's why the fragrance is very strong and, you know, not overpulling but, you know, you
02:26can taste and smell of the fragrance of the tea.
02:30Yeah, it's really nice.
02:32I've never tried anything like this before but it's absolutely amazing.