French bread is loved
as a dining component by everyone!
French bread is a much loved dinner component. Its
crusty top makes it more delicious and adds pleasure at the dining
table. The French baguette is of a definite shape of the bread with a
recommended length with the same type of crispy crust and slits for
appropriate movement of gases creating the crumbs and the soft inside
the bread.
The French bread is a bread of white flour with a
crispy top. The inside is soft with bubbles and the shape is like the
torpedo or baguette pattern, which is usual in France. The fresh French
bread is used for breakfast, lunch, dinner or in late night supper.
French bread should be used the same day it is purchased and should be
wrapped in plastic for next time use otherwise it looses the softness
for which it is loved.
It has a special taste and is therefore suits people
with a different taste or you can acquire the taste over some time. The
French bread is prepared in homes easily. There are several preparations
of the French bread that you can make but the simple type is ideal for
you.
Prepare the dough with white wheat flour. Use your
hands to aerate the dough, which takes some time and you get the
baker-quality dough and produce a French bread with crispy crust and
soft texture. If you have a mixture machine in your kitchen, you can
take the help of it to get the uniformity of the dough but the work of
the hands would be enough for the home dining purpose.
Make small rolls to taste the texture and bake a few
to find the effect. After being satisfied with the material, you can
give a shape like the usual torpedo and bake it at 400 degree F for
the initial 5 minutes and sprinkle water on the bread to put it back to
baking at 350 degrees F to remain there for another 25-30 minutes for
getting it fully baked. Your need of the ingredients will be: tepid
water, 2 teaspoonfuls dry yeast, 2 teaspoonfuls of sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls
of salt, 5-6 cups of white wheat flour, white of 1 egg and some poppy
seeds.
It only takes your interest to cook a bread of this
quality and if you can comply with the following tips, you come as a
winner with a good quality French bread made at your kitchen. At the
beginning of the preparation, mix water, yeast, sugar and salt in a
container and stir it thoroughly so that solid particles are dissolved
properly. Add flour in small quantity and continue to do so for the
entire flour to make dough. Bring the dough on a flat board to knead it
for about 10 minutes to make it soft and properly aerated.
Transfer the dough to a container which is pre
greased and move the dough so that the outer skin of the dough is
greased properly. Let the material stay in the kitchen for about an hour
properly covered by a towel and preferably in a warm place so that the
dough grows in size. When you find the material soft and swollen, give
it a further kneading of another 5 minutes to get a quality texture of
the loaf. Make two separate portions of the material and give each part
the shape of torpedo.
Place the two materials in separate baking sheets
properly greased and make ¾ inch slits in the top of the materials with
a knife. Cover the materials of torpedo shape with a kitchen cloth and
leave them for another hour to increase in size. When you find them
double in size put them in the preheated oven at 400 degree F and follow
the simple procedure discussed earlier to make the French bread. |
