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Baguettes #3

Baguettes #3 — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 2.5 cup Cool Water
• 2.0 pkg Active Dry Yeast
• 6.0 cup Bread Flour Or Unbleached All Purpose Flour
• 2.0 tsp Salt

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Method (preview)

1. 1

   Bread flour, toasted sesame seed, poppy seed, and/or toasted wheat germ In a large mixing bowl stir together the 21/2 cups water and yeast. Let stand about 3 minutes or till mixture looks creamy. With a freestanding electric mixer or by hand with a spoon, add 3 to 4 cups of the flour, a little at a time, mixing on low speed at first and then on medium speed. (This will take about 10 minutes.) Sprinkle the salt over the dough during the last minute of mixing.

2. 2

   If your mixer has a dough hook, continue to add flour, 1/2 cup at a time, till the dough clings together and cleans the side of the bowl. Continue mixing on medium speed about 5 minutes to make a stiff dough that is smooth and elastic. Or, to knead by hand, with a spoon stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead in enough of the remaining flour to make a stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (8 to 10 minutes total).