Country French Bread. This is a French bread developed by Chuck Williams of Williams-Sonoma. We’ll see if mine turns out like the one in the picture at the link. If it’s not done in time I’ll have to simmer the chili I’m also making a little longer.
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups water
2 1/4 cups bread flour
3/4 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons gluten
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 1/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast
The recipe is from The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook by Beth Hensperger. That’s the source of nearly every bread I’ve tried so far.
This makes a 1.5 pound loaf of bread. Servings are 1 ounce. Place all ingredients in the pan according to the order in the manufacturer’s instructions. Set crust on dark and program for the Basic or French Bread cycle; press Start.
Update: Here’s how it came out. It tasted great. It was baked entirely in the bread machine, which is why it doesn’t look like standard French bread. The color of the crumb is dark because of the 3/4 cups of whole wheat flour.
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“Servings are 1 ounce.”
Hah!! When we were first married, I got into the bread making habit. No machines, I just did it. And I got pretty good at it. I would bake two loaves of bread. My husband would come home in the evening and breathe deeply of the smell of freshly baked bread. By morning, there would only be one loaf remaining. By that night, there was no more bread. 🙂
I finally had to stop baking because we were both beginning to put on a little weight. One ounce servings?? Hah!!
LOL
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