You probably heard that buying ready-made bread is much more profitable than cooking it yourself. In addition, every second is sure that this is a very troublesome process and absolutely unnecessary for a modern person. We are sure of the opposite, and therefore we present to your attention the recipe of the French baguette in the oven - incredibly lush, crunchy, and not going in any comparison with the store's bread.
Recipe for a tasty French baguette in the oven
Before starting the preparation, make sure that you use a special bread flour, which contains enough gluten in it, which forms protein filaments that hold the air in the crumb and make it porous.
Ingredients:
For starter:
- flour - 255 g;
- water 190 ml;
- Yeast - 5 g.
For the test:
- flour - 255 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- yeast - 2 g;
- salt - 5 tsp.
Preparation
Mix the ingredients for the starter by first bringing the water to room temperature. Then leave the leaven for a couple of hours at room temperature, and then move it to the refrigerator for the night. In the morning, the ripened ferment will need to be reactivated, again leaving it for a couple of hours in the heat. As a result, you will observe a noticeably bubbling mixture that has doubled or tripled in size.
In the prepared leaven pour the rest of the heated water, add flour, yeast, salt. After mixing the dough, let it lie down for 10 minutes, and then start stretching and folding it, repeating the process for about 2 minutes. After, put everything in an oiled bowl for 45 minutes. Repeat stretching-folding-proofing three more times. Divide the dough into sachets and form into baguettes, let everyone come back for 45 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 240 degrees and place a container of water on the lower level. Place the French baguettes in the oven and bake them for 25 minutes, after a while open the sash of the oven and leave the bread for another 5 minutes.
How to bake a quick French baguette in the oven?
Speed up the classical technology is possible, but not without sacrifices for the result. These victims will be insignificant, just the crumb will not come out as much porous and sticky as the baguette made according to the recipe above.
Ingredients:
- flour - 275 g;
- yeast - 10 g;
- water - 175 g;
- bacon - 4 strips;
- salt - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Combine the yeast with flour and a pinch of salt, add warm water. Put the dough on the order of 10 minutes, add the pieces of fried bacon and mix again. Leave the dough in the heat until doubling in volume, then form it into a baguette and cut. Give me a try again, but it's about half an hour. A delicious French baguette is baked for about half an hour in a preheated oven to 200 degrees.