Bread Machine French Bread

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Description
This bread machine French bread recipe is very easy to make. It only uses a few simple ingredients such as flour, water, salt and yeast. Moreover, our French bread tastes great and you can easily mold it into a beautiful baguette shape. Your family will be amazed by your baking skills… while you smirk because you made it with the help of a bread machine! This bread recipe can also be a fun family project, especially if you have small children. Have them shape your bread for you. You can always reshape the dough if they create a food monstrosity.

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soup_kitchenCuisine: FRENCH

menu_book Source: Internet: https://breaddad.com/bread-machine-french-bread-recipe/

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Ingredients
  • 307 ml Lukewarm Water 
  • 6 gram Salt 
  • 6 gram Instant Yeast 
  • 420 gram Bread Flour 
Directions
  1. Place the water and then the rest of the ingredients into the bread pan. You can make a little indent on top of the flour in order to avoid the yeast falling into the water (until the machine starts). Do not combine the salt with the yeast (as the salt can kill the yeast). Place the yeast & salt in separate parts of the bread pan.
  2. Put your machine on the “Dough” setting and press the start button. In our bread machine, the kneading & rising on the dough setting takes about 1:30 hours.
  3. Divide the dough into 4 equal parts if you want to make 4 skinny baguettes (roughly 12 inches long). Or divide the dough into 2 equal parts in order to make 2 thicker French bread “rolls”. FYI – I usually make 2 thicker & longer loaves with this recipe.
  4. Roll the divided dough with your hands into your preferred shape (i.e. baguette or thicker bread roll). See our tips below on shaping the bread dough (especially about making the dough roll about 1/2 the width of your desired end product… as the dough expands as the yeast rises).
  5. Place the shaped dough onto a nonstick baking sheet.
  6. Coat the dough with olive oil. Use a small pastry brush.
  7. Cover the dough & baking sheet with a light kitchen cloth or plastic wrap in order to protect from dust, etc.
  8. Let the dough rise for 1 hour.
  9. During this “rising” time, preheat your oven to 450 degrees F.
  10. After the hour, remove the covering from the dough and “score” (slice) the top of each dough roll with a sharp knife. Make diagonal slices about 1/2 inch deep and about 3 inches apart. This will help prevent the bread from cracking during baking.
  11. Place the baking sheet in the oven. It should bake at 450 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
  12. At the 8-10 minute mark, turn the baking sheet around in order to ensure an even “browning” of the bread.
  13. Remove the baking sheet when done and place the bread on a cooling rack.