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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook country french bread using 6 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Country French Bread:
- Get 1 tsp Active dry yeast
- Make ready 2 cups warm water
- Get 4-5 cups unbleached flour
- Prepare 2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 egg mixed with 1 tbsp of coldwater
- Make ready Oil to grease the pan
Country French Bread is classic all-purpose bread-great for sandwiches, delicious for morning toast, and a wonderful loaf to set at the center of the table. This is the style of bread that appeared on the table throughout my childhood, and it has never lost its appeal. French country bread, or pain de campagne, is a combination of white and whole wheat flour, and is typically made with sourdough, but can also be made with baker's yeast. I have a lot of French country bread recipes on this blog, including this one, that takes a couple of days to make, this one , that requires a three to four hour rise, and.
Steps 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.
No need to be intimidated by yeast with this easy French bread recipe. Nothing beats homemade bread fresh and warm straight from the oven! I ventured into the world of French bread a while back. I spent years messing around trying to come up with the ultimate French-style, crisp-crusted bread, and many times came within bragging distance. But with this recipe closely adapted from Paula Wolfert's Country-Style Bread in The Cooking of South-West France - I've found it!
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