Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- parchment paper;
- cling film;
- mixer;
- sieve;
- deep containers of different sizes;
- measuring cup or kitchen scale.
Ingredients
Product | amount |
Premium wheat flour | 375 g |
Wheat starter | 50 g |
Pure non-carbonated water | 215 g |
Salt | 8 g |
Granulated sugar | 5 g |
Step cooking
- Put 50 grams of wheat starter in a bowl and add 75 grams of clean still water at room temperature, 75 grams of wheat flour sifted through a sieve. Mix all the ingredients well, cover the bowl with cling film and leave at room temperature for at least a couple of hours. The maximum for insisting on such leaven is time up to 12 hours. But the warmer the room, the faster the leaven will be suitable for further work.
- When the leaven is ready, add 140 grams of pure water, 8 grams of salt, 5 grams of granulated sugar to it and mix well.
- Pour into the mixer bowl and sift there through a sieve 300 grams of premium wheat flour.
- Knead the dough with a mixer at medium speed for five minutes.
- When the dough is ready, transfer to a deep container, cover with a lid or cling film and leave to come up at room temperature for three hours.
- After each hour, we stretch the dough and knead lightly.
- After the time has passed, spread the dough on a flat surface sprinkled with wheat flour. Divide the dough into two equal parts and round it.
- We cover the dough with cling film or a lid and leave to stand again for 15 minutes.
- Then we form a loaf from each part and roll it into a baguette.
- Formed baguettes are placed on parchment paper, covered with cling film and left to rest for three hours.
- After the time has passed, we make characteristic oblique sections on each baguette and sprinkle with water. We shift onto a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Preheat the oven to 230 degrees Celsius and set our baguettes to bake. After 15 minutes, open the oven, sprinkle baguettes with water, lower the temperature to 200 degrees Celsius and bake another 20 minutes.
- We take out the finished bread from the oven and let it cool.
Video recipe
This video recipe will be very useful for those who intend to learn how to bake real French bread at home. Such pastries simply must be on the table at every modern housewife. This bread is not a shame to serve on the holiday table as sandwiches or just on a bread plate. Be sure each of your friends will ask for this recipe.