June 26, 2015 - 12:30am
advice needed - my first baguettes
Hi all
I finally posted my first blog post last night, and would love some advice if you have time to look at it. I made my first baguettes - two different recipes - and want to do it again for a family party this weekend (in fact I have just finished setting up a batch of san joaquin sourdough and a batch of txfarmer's 36 hour recipe).
Any advice on what to do differently this time would be fantastic, thank you!
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Try slashing diagonally with slightly overlapping diagonal slashes.
Ford
Steam would help a lot with texture color and crust put a sheet pan of hot water in the oven let it boil then set your tray of bread on it and cover it with a higher pan on top for 5 minutes then uncover and let it bake
Thanks so much for the help. The shaping videos are great. I am using steam, but not putting something over the baguettes as I don't have anything that will fit! The steaming seems to be working ok, the oven certainly feels steamy when I open it. Not as good as when I bake boules in a dutch oven, but pretty good. I think it's all about the practice.
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