Baguette
sides | bread french500g flour
10g salt
2g yeast
375g water
- Mix dry ingredients, then add water and fold to incorporate.
- Rest for 3 hours covered with plastic wrap. Every 30 minutes, fold 20-25 times, then recover.
- Cut into three 300g pieces and shape into loose balls.
- Let rise 20-25 minutes under linen topped with plastic wrap.
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Put each ball seam up and shape with four step method
- Fold top edge down a little more than half of the way, making a seam
- Rotate 180° and fold the top down a little more than half way, making a seam (it should look like an envelope)
- Rotate 180° and fold down to the bottom, making a seam with the butt of your hand every few inches
- Turn over and roll out, starting in the middle, then working to the edges, then working on any larger sections to make them uniform