How to bake a baguette

Baguette – long puffy bread with amazing crisp. Properly cooked, it will give you an unforgettable taste of French bread. It is possible to make great sandwiches. But best of all, this bread is not cut, but break it with hands. To prepare the baguette does not require any exotic ingredients. So rather buy the necessary ingredients and start cooking.

You will need

• • 5-10 grams of dry yeast
  • 2 teaspoon sugar
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 375 ml warm water
  • 500 grams of flour
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Instruction

1. Take some warm water, add sugar, yeast and 2-3 pinches of flour. Stir, cover with a towel or napkin. Leave on for 15-20 minutes to form a foam.
2. Add in the yeast mixture, remaining water and salt. Gradually stir in the flour and add the oil.
3. Knead the dough. It should not be too steep and a bit sticky. The less you knead the dough, moristee you get a baguette.
4. Shape the baguettes: long and narrow loaf of bread with several parallel slanting notches. Put them on a baking sheet, sprinkled with flour. Cover with towel and let rise in a warm place until the baguettes will not increase significantly in size (from 15 to 90 minutes).
5. While the bread rises, preheat the oven to 200-240 degrees Celsius. On the bottom of the oven you need to put a container of water to generate steam. Bake the baguettes with steam for 10 minutes. Then remove the bowl of water and continue to bake for another 10-15 minutes.
6. The baguettes are ready to shift to a Board or grid to cool them down.