French Baguette

At last on the blog!!

Grand-daughter of an Alsatian baker, I had to share a French baguette recipe!!

So here is the express French baguette!

To be honest, I did not create this French baguette recipe, you can find it on several food blogs. It’s just a normal addition to the bread recipes already shared here.

After a few non convincing tests, I find this recipe to be working pretty well!
Before diving into the details of the recipe, here are some other “bakery” recipes available on the blog:

• Eric Kayser’s brioche bread
• thyme pita bread for sandwiches
• rye bread
• buns or burger bread
• sourdough bread
• pita bread for gyros
• Challah bread
• Simit, Turkish sesame seed bread
• quick pita bread
• cheese naans, or Indian flatbread stuffed with cheese
• soft bread

So it’s an express French baguette because making the dough will only require 3 minutes !! And you won’t need a food processor!! And that’s good news! Just keep in mind that your dough will rise for at least  1 hour 30 minutes. You can leave it to rise longer of course, in this case the crumb will be more dimpled.

Anyhow, you will get a very crunchy crust!

The utensils:

A large bowl,

A spatula,

A flexible rounded plastic scraper (it’s the best way to shape your baguettes, but you can also take a spatula),

A rectangular baking tray,

A pair of cooking scissors

And a baguette baking tray (I take my De Buyer, covered with baking paper).

I won’t say more…

The recipe, Chef!

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French Baguette

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boulangerie – française

Serves: 2 pces Difficulty: super easy Price: $

Prep Time: 5 min + 1 hour 30 min – Cooking Time: 25 min

Ingredients

• 320 g flour
• 5 g dehydrated yeast or 10 g fresh one
• 250 g warm water
• 8 g salt

Instructions

1

Pour the water in your bowl with the instant yeast. Leave 1 minute.

2

Mix with a spatula.

3

Add flour and salt. Mix well until you get an homogeneous mixture.

4

Leave to rest covered with a humid clean linen for at least 1 hour 30 minutes.

5

After this time, pour the dough on a floured working plan. Make two doughs with your flexible rounded plastic scraper.

6

Shape two baguettes and place them on your baguette baking tray covered with baking paper.

7

Preheat your oven at 240 degrés, with the rectangular baking tray at the bottom.

8

When the oven has reached 240, make cuts on the baguettes with your scissors, throw 1/3 glass of water on your rectangular baking tray and cook the baguettes for 25 minutes.

9

After cooking, place on grid.

Notes

Throwing water in the oven is important. The steam will help your baguette to grown as it should.