Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, country french bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Crusty French bread, riddled with holes and full of flavor. Just enough whole wheat to give it some flavor but not so much that it's heavy. "A simple European-style country bread. French Country Bread: In a large bowl combine the flours, yeast, malt powder, and salt.
Country French Bread is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Country French Bread is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook country french bread using 6 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Country French Bread:
- Take 1 tsp Active dry yeast
- Take 2 cups warm water
- Take 4-5 cups unbleached flour
- Prepare 2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 egg mixed with 1 tbsp of coldwater
- Get Oil to grease the pan
This sourdough French country style bread is crusty with an open crumb, best baked in Dutch oven. Called "Pain de Campagne" in French, this rustic country style French bread uses a mix of both wholemeal flour and white bread flour. Thom Leonard's Country French Bread (from "Artisan Baking " by Maggie Glezer). In the French Chef dvd Julia Child mentions the heating pad–and gave me a brainstorm as I was.
Instructions to make Country French Bread:
- In a small bowl combine the yeast with 1/2 cup of water. Set aside for 10 minutes until foam starts to form.
- Combine 4 cups of flour with salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Add yeast mixture and remaining water to the flour. Using a mixer with a dough hook, knead the dough until it is no longer sticking to the bowl. Add more flour as needed.
- When dough is no longer sticking to the bowl, set the bowl aside and cover with a dampened cloth. Leave for about 1.5 hours or until dough has doubled in size.
- Remove the dough from the bowl cut into 4 peices.
- Roll the dough with your hands into long buns using a rolling, pulling and squeezing technique
- Transfer loaves to lightly oiled baking sheets (2 on each). Let rise until doubled again.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees and ensure that racks are on the middle and bottom locations.
- Beat the egg with 1 tbsp of cold water and glaze each loaf.
- With a sharp knife cut diagonal slits in the loaves
- Place a metal pie pan with water on the bottom rack of the oven.
- Bake loaves for 15 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 400 degrees, switch the places of the pans and bake for another 5 - 10 minutes until loaves are golden brown.
- Remove from oven. Let cool and serve. Tastes great with butter!
- To freeze: once cooled, wrap in saran wrap and keep in freezer until you're ready to serve it.
This Spelt Country French Bread, made with all-purpose and whole grain spelt, utilizes the straight dough This is a very easy bread! When it comes to proper yeast. Extra wheaty with stone-ground whole-wheat flour, this sponge-starter-based bread is more dense than a white-flour French bread. French/Italian Bread Program Can be made with Delay Start Timer (must be present to add olives). The French Country Bread recipe out of our category Bread!
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