Country French Bread
Country French Bread

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Country French Bread is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Country French Bread is something that I have loved my whole life.

Slash or cross-hatch the bread with a sharp knife or lame. Country French Bread recipe is surprisingly simple instructions showing how to make bread, especially for how gorgeous the bread turns out. Soft, delicious, and done in just over an hour, this homemade bread recipe is a winner.

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 can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Country French Bread:
  1. Prepare 1 tsp Active dry yeast
  2. Get 2 cups warm water
  3. Make ready 4-5 cups unbleached flour
  4. Make ready 2 tsp salt
  5. Prepare 1 egg mixed with 1 tbsp of coldwater
  6. Take Oil to grease the pan

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! It is the simplest of breads: flour, water, salt, yeast. It's good, chewy, coarse, basic: more European than.

Steps to make Country French Bread:
  1. In a small bowl combine the yeast with 1/2 cup of water. Set aside for 10 minutes until foam starts to form.
  2. Combine 4 cups of flour with salt in a large mixing bowl.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Remove the dough from the bowl cut into 4 peices.
  6. Roll the dough with your hands into long buns using a rolling, pulling and squeezing technique
  7. Transfer loaves to lightly oiled baking sheets (2 on each). Let rise until doubled again.
  8. Preheat oven to 450 degrees and ensure that racks are on the middle and bottom locations.
  9. Beat the egg with 1 tbsp of cold water and glaze each loaf.
  10. With a sharp knife cut diagonal slits in the loaves
  11. Place a metal pie pan with water on the bottom rack of the oven.
  12. 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.
  13. Remove from oven. Let cool and serve. Tastes great with butter!
  14. To freeze: once cooled, wrap in saran wrap and keep in freezer until you're ready to serve it.

Pain de campagne is the classic French country bread. It's essentially a sourdough, but it's that bit special with a touch of rye and whole wheat. It needs a little patience, but not much effort, and the wonderfully flavorful loaf is most definitely worth it. Line a french bread pan with a clean kitchen towel (a large flour sack towel works well) and sprinkle with a little flour. Roll each ball into a log with tapered ends, about the length of the pan, and place on the towel in the pan.

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