Saturday, June 12, 2010

French Bread


This is a recipe I got from my friend. She does weight watchers and loves this bread recipe because it doesn't have any fat it in. I made it yesterday and it was yummy! I had some for breakfast too.

Ingredients:
1 C warm water
1 1/4 tsp yeast
1/2 TBS sugar
1/2 Tbs salt
3 1/2 C flour

Directions:

Mix the water, yeast and sugar. Let yeast develop for 5-10 min. Sift together salt and flour. Slowly add to yeast mixture. Once combined, knead dough for a minute or two. Place in greased bowl, cover with wet towel, and let rise 1 1/2 hours.

Once risen, roll out the loaf to roughly a 16x12 inch rectangle. Roll loaf and shape ends. Place on greased baking sheet. Brush with butter then cover and let rise 45 min.

Place a dish of water in lowest rack of oven. Preheat to 450. (The water creates steam, which helps make the crust nice and crusty, use this technique whenever you bake bread!) Bake loaf for five minutes at 450 then 20-25 min at 350.

Don't forget to remove the dish of water once your oven has cooled!

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