French Baguette
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A baguette is a long,thin loaf of French bread made from scratch and has a unique lengthy shape and crisp crust.It can be served as starter or main course.
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Ingredients
- All purpose flour 2 cup reserve 1/2 cup separately
- water 3/4 cup
- yeast 3/4 teaspoon
- sugar1/2teaspoon
- salt 1 teaspoon
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Instructions
- Add sugar and yeast in a small bowl and set aside to proof for about 5 minutes.
- Add salt to flour and mix well.
- Wait till yeast to bloom.
- Add bloomed yeast to the flour and mix well with spatula.
- Mix well to become sticky dough.Reserve 1/2 cup flour for later use.
- Trasfer the sticky dough to a greased vessel and brush oil on top of the dough and cover the vessel with kitchen towel.Wait till it proof.
- Dough has doubled in size after two hours.Sprinkle the reserved flour on kitcen top.Transfer the dough on to the working table..Prepare wire rack with parchment paper.
- Flatten the dough and deflate air bubbles in the dough.Fold dough as shown.
- Repeat fold again.
- The dough should be folded thrice before to shape like a Rope.
- Roll dough as a Rope using the reserved flour.
- Place the Baguette Rope on to the prepared parchment wire rack.Sprinkle some flour on top of the log rope dough.
- Score the dough with sharp knife to make the wedges.
- Bagutte dough is ready for second proof.
- Cover with kitchen towel and let it rise until doubledd about an hour.tin
- Preheat oven for 230 degrees placing a bread loaf tin in the oven.
- Let it preheat for half hour.
- Baguette dough has risen double in size and it's ready to bake.
- Add 1 cup of water to the preheated bread loaf tin.
- Place the Baguette Rope rack and shut the oven door immediately.Set timer for 40 minutes to bake.
- Let it bake until crisp on top and brown.
- French Baguette is well baked with crisp on top.
- Crispy top with soft chewy inside.
- Perfect French Baguette is when you tap top you can hear the hollowness well.Allow the baguette to cool a bit before serving.
- Cut French Baguette with a serrated knife into slices and serve with the toppings as you like.
- French Baguette is ready with many different toppings and can be garnished with grapes, walnuts and mint leaves.It can be served as a starter or main course.
Notes
Preheating oven with loaf tin is must .To get the chewy inside adding water to the loaf tin is a must follow step.Proofing time is very essential.For a perfect French Baguette (crispy top with holloweness and chewy inside) these steps are to be followed without fail.
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