My first attempt at these loaves from Daniel T. DiMuzio's book 'bread baking An Artisan's Perspective'. An excellent book and one of my favorites. I used the formula for Baguettes with Liquid Levain. I made one small baguette for dinner before bulk fermenting the rest of the dough for 24hrs. My husband had crunched it in half and was eating it before I had finished putting dinner on the table and said yumm this is delicious. I made 2 french breads also 'called parisiennes in the book when scaled into 500g (18oz). The french 2 loaves weighed 16.3 oz. each after being baked. The flavor is delicious, sweet, buttery and no sourness with a creamy mouth feel and nice chew to the crust.
After searching I found the photo taken of the crunched baguette. So I added it for reference. In MHO it is very similar to the Baguette Monge I did with the same 69% hydration level. There is no added organic white wheat in this baguette. I will add it next bake because the taste is so delicious and closely resembles in appearance and flavor that of the E.K.B.M. I baked.
Sylvia
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Gosh, they look great! Crumb, crust and scoring, all around delicious!
I have never heard of that book either, I might be checking my library to see if they have a copy. Thanks for sharing!
Watch for Dan on TFL...he's checks in now and then with a helping hand.
Sylvia
I think you should visit my house and give me a lesson or two.
Michael
Michael you have all the lessons right in your copy of Daniel's book. I see your also enjoy having a copy : )
Sylvia
Look at the open crumb!
Sylvia
Sylvia, it my dream to have bread look that perfect. Congrats!!
Betsy
I think we all dream of a perfect bread...if there is one : )
Sylvia
As always, your baking is picture perfect and I'm sure it tasted even better! I love seeing how you've added captioning to your pictures. I'm still just trying to find time to post once in while with a somewhat decent picture.
Glad you enjoyed the captioning it was fun to do...summer has arrived and it's getting very hot to bake..more time to play on the PC.
Sylvia