DIY French Baguette

I must say when you have a good bakery not too far from you, why bother to make bread. But what if you don’t ?

You can get delivered french bread flour  from that website, so I decided to give it a go
http://www.basicingredients.com.au/catalog/index.php?cPath=103_180

So you will need

500g of flour

300ml warm water

35g yeast  salt       

In a big bowl add the yeast at the center of the flour. Start slowly incorporating the water to the flour until you have a nice bowl. If you feel it is not right like too sticky add flour. Or on the contrary add water. Also mixing is very important to incorporate all ingredients so mix well.

 

 

  

Let to rest for 30 minutes under a tea towel. You will see it expand quite a lot.

Spread some flour on a board and make a square with the paste. Fold then roll in a baguette shape or other shape. You can do it several time for even better result.

 

Let to rest for 40 minutes in that shape. It will expand again, so don’t keep the bread too close to each other

 

 

Pre-heat your oven at 250 and then cooked for 30 minutes at 200 or when the crust looks really nice.

MIAM!