🥖French Baguettes🥖.
This is an excellent recipe for French bread/baguettes. I use my KitchenAid and follow standard bread making procedures. Knead each section into a ball.
I like to make them mini size as pictured here to use in great sandwiches or just in a bread basket in the center of the dinner table; it is always.
The classic French baguette might take a lifetime to master, but you don't have time for that.
Here's a simple baguette recipe that will amaze you.
You can have 🥖French Baguettes🥖 using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of 🥖French Baguettes🥖
- You need 400 g (14 oz) of strong white bread flour.
- Prepare 300 ml (10 fl oz) of lukewarm water.
- It's 2 tsp of dried yeast.
- You need 1 of &1/2 tsp salt.
The perfect baguette, light with a crusty exterior and a soft, slightly chewy interior, is as sublime a creation as has ever emerged from any oven.
The perfect baguette requires just four ingredients and a weekend at home.
Amazingly, baguettes are made from just four ingredients: water, yeast, flour, and salt. (Five ingredients if you count time.) Still, most of us shy away from making baguettes at home because of the time commitment and the.
A baguette is a typical French bread loaf.
🥖French Baguettes🥖 instructions
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Place the water in a large bowl and add the yeast. Mix well and leave for about 10 minutes to allow the yeast to activate.
Mix together the flour and salt in a bowl..
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Add half the flour into the water/yeast mixture to form a batter. Cover and leave in a warm place for about 3-4 hours until is becomes a bubbling mass.
Mix in the remaining flour to form what should be a slightly sticky dough. If your dough is too sticky keep mixing in handfuls of flour to achieve the correct consistency..
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Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead for 10 minutes.
Put the dough in a lightly-greased bowl, cover and leave to rise until the dough has doubled in size.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knock it back. Divide the dough into 2 and make each piece into a ball..
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Stretch a piece of dough out into a rectangle. Fold up the bottom third, fold over the top third and press to seal the edges. Perform this step a total of 3 times per piece of dough. You may need to let the dough rest for a minute or two between each stretch to avoid tearing the dough..
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Roll the dough out. Place in the grooves of a lightly-greased baguette tray OR fold a teatowel(to make 2 or 4 grooves, flour well and place a piece of dough in each groove or ( just simple put into the baking tray). Cover and leave the dough to rise for about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 240°C (464°F) conventional/ 220°C (430°F) fan oven and place a tray of water in the bottom.
If you are using a teatowel transfer the risen dough to a baking tray..
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Cut deep diagonal slashes into the bread and bake for 15-20 minutes until well browned.
#Notes:
The dough should be really soft and moist and flow very slowly if left alone..
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The first step to mixing French baguettes is to combine your water, flour (preferably a mix of high-gluten flour and all-purpose flour), yeast and salt.
Tastes amazing but didn't look like baguettes ( the dough was very airy so it was like a sub ) not a bad thing good shape for a sandwich which is what the kids were shooting for.
These baguettes are made with a mixture of strong and white flour and require no yeast, using baking powder as the rising agent.
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