French Bread
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| Category: | Other Breads |
| Serves: | 2 loaves |
Ingredients
| 1 pkg | (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast |
| 1 1/2 c | warm water (110 f.-115 f), divided |
| 1 Tbsp | sugar |
| 2 tsp | salt |
| 1 Tbsp | butter, melted |
| 4 c | all-purpose flour |
| cornmeal |
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Billie NealLightly SaltedMalden, MO (pop. 4,275)WildExpectationMember Since Nov 2010Billie's Notes:
I've got a cookbook from Reader's Digest named, "Homemade How to Make Hundreds of Everyday Products You would Otherwise Buy"
and after looking for a French bread recipe without success, I decided to help others out with one. I tried JAP members, but after the 10 page was completed, I gave up.
So here goes, I hope you Enjoy!!!!Directions
In a large bowl, combine the yeast with 1/2 cup of the water and stir until the yeast is dissolved.Add the sugar, salt, butter, and remaining 1 cup water. Stir until all the ingredients are well blended and the powdered ingredients are dissolved. Add the flour and stir until the dough is smooth; do not knead. Cover the bowl and let the dough rise in a warm place until it is doubled in size, about 1 hour.Lightly flour a work surface. Divide the dough in half; let the dough halves rest for 10 minutes. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll one dough half into a 10x8-inch rectangle. Beginning on a long side, roll up the dough, jelly-roll-fashion; pinch the edges to seal the loaf. Repeat with the remaining dough half.Lightly grease a baking sheet and sprinkle it with cornmeal. Place the loaves, seam side down, on the prepared baking sheet; sprinkle the tops of the loaves with additional cornmeal. Cover the loaves and let rise until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.Preheat the oven to 400F. Using a sharp knife, make five diagonal cuts across the top of each loaf. Bake the loaves until they are lightly browned, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the loaves to wire racks to cool.
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Billie Neal
WildExpectation
Feb 13, 2013
Oh, great!!! I've been looking for a French bread recipe that sounded like what my stepdad described his mom making when he was a kid. He's gone now but I can finally make his MOM's French bread and I'll dedicate the first bite his!!! He was Cajun French and his mom Italian, but he said she cooked more Cajun French foods than anything else. Is there any other recipes you recommend from this cb?? I found a recipe, "Quick Lasagna", that sounds good and gives me an idea to what to do with pasta bought in bulk. Cook, freeze, take out and create all kinds of different casseroles with stuff you have on hand, for a quick easier meal!!! Thanks Bobby!!!
Bobby Webb
Bobdoescooking
Feb 13, 2013
Hi Billie,
If you are dreaming of the Mac & Tomatoes, "TRY IT- YOU MIGHT LIKE IT".
No!!, I don't have any BC cb. I've got Taste of Home. 10 Taste of Home Annual recipes, and no telling the monthly mag I have. Also I got 12 Southern Living Annual recipes. I got several, I call them "BIBLE", cookbook from Appetizers to Waffle. From Cooking 101 to Freezing and canning to Entertaining. I've got one that I picked up in 1982 called "The Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking", by Charlotte Turgeon. I would not take anything for it. It has 2000 recipes...I also got other cookbook about casserole-Desserts-Best ever Pasta. Bobby
If you are dreaming of the Mac & Tomatoes, "TRY IT- YOU MIGHT LIKE IT".
No!!, I don't have any BC cb. I've got Taste of Home. 10 Taste of Home Annual recipes, and no telling the monthly mag I have. Also I got 12 Southern Living Annual recipes. I got several, I call them "BIBLE", cookbook from Appetizers to Waffle. From Cooking 101 to Freezing and canning to Entertaining. I've got one that I picked up in 1982 called "The Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking", by Charlotte Turgeon. I would not take anything for it. It has 2000 recipes...I also got other cookbook about casserole-Desserts-Best ever Pasta. Bobby
Billie Neal
WildExpectation
Feb 13, 2013
I have loads of Taste of Home, Southern Living and so many others it would be futile to start naming more. Like I said earlier, I've probably got more than 200 cb. I guess I should take the time to # and right the names of all of them down at least for insurance. I'm going to have to see what kind of wood Pop left in the shed because I am in need of some more at least one good sized one to put all the books that I've just got stacked by my current 3 book cases that are all cb except for 1 shelf with quilting books. I read them and never did get a chance to actually get started quilting!! HAHAHA!! Think somebody is trying to tell me something?
Bobby Webb
Bobdoescooking
Feb 13, 2013
Now if you start Quilting, you will never do another recipes or cookbooks. My Grandmother use to quilt, and it took for every to do one guilt. She had the frame tied up over the kitchen table, and when she start to guilt, I had to take it down for her, she was short (4'10"). When the guilt was getting starting, you got not see because the quilt would block out the lights HaHa!!
Billie Neal
WildExpectation
Feb 13, 2013
It's just me here so I can put it anywhere I want it. The sewing room is to small to put it in there. The front bedroom is in shambles right now where I broke everything to put down some carpet and haven't put the bed back up, so that would be good. Plus, it gets more light than every room except the living room. The other two bedrooms would have to be moved around so I don't think I'm going there. I could put it in the den, but right now I have alot of "yard sale" stuff taking up the empty space. I don't think I will try to start until after the gardening season is over. I spend everyday I can in my gardens. I absolutely love it!!! I would like to get some fishing in but I don't have anybody to go with me up here. I miss New Orleans!! When I lived there me and my best friend would go fishing every spare minute we had. Even if the fish wasn't biting you could always find something else to do, like picking berries or picking out interesting and/or pretty seashells! OOOOHHHH!!!! I MISS NEW ORLEANS!!!!
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