Homemade French Bread

Seriously nothing smells better than home made bread (as I said in the post about the Ciabatta post). Just the best…they should make a candle that smells like it.

As promised here is the super easy recipe for home made french bread. Try it with the Artichoke Crab dip bread, you wont be sorry.

Homemade French Bread

(makes 2 loafs)

From tastykitchen

Ingredients

½ cup warm water
5 tsp (2 pks) dry active yeast
2 cup HOT water
1/3 cup olive oil
2 Tbsp salt
2 Tbsp sugar
3 cups bread flour
3 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

Combine warm water and yeast in a small bowl.
In a large bowl combine HOT water, oil, sugar, salt and ½ the flour. Stir with a wooden spoon until incorporated.
Add yeast mix and combine.
Add remaining flour and combine until fully incorporated.
Leave spoon in and let rest with a wet towel over bowl for 10 min.
Stir with spoon and let rest for another 10 min again. Do this for a total of 5 times.
Divide dough in half.
Roll 1 half out on a floured surface into a rectangle. Roll up (like when you make cinnamon rolls ). Place on lined baking sheet. Do the same for the other half.
Let rise for 30 min.
With a bread knife make 3 slits. Bush with egg wash (1 egg white +1 Tbsp water)
Bake in a 400-degree oven for 25-30 min.
Remove and let cool.