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French bread oven recipe.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile place a 6 quart dutch oven or heavy cooking pot with oven safe lid inside the oven.
Continue cooking the bread uncovered for 10 15 minutes more until the bread has deepened in color and you have a beautiful brown crust.
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Immediately remove bread from baking sheet.
After 30 minutes remove the lid from your dutch oven.
Its famous crust is made by baking the loaves at 400 f for the first five minutes and then misting the loaves with water.
French bread requires a water wash and baking with steam to come out crunchy eggs are a no no on this type of bread.
Spritz water into the oven with a clean plant mister and place the bread in the oven.
This is the very best french bread that i have had since i left europe many years ago.
Relatively new to bread making and have previously been unsuccessful baking french bread.
Using a sharp knife make 3 or 4 diagonal cuts about 1 4 inch deep across the top of each loaf.
Whether it s served in a basket with butter or olive oil before dinner alongside the meal or used to make garlic bread stuffed sandwiches or french bread pizza everyone loves french bread.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees f.
Beat egg white until foamy and brush over top of loaf.
It rose well had a brown crispy crust and chewy inside simply amazing.
Preheat your oven to 475 f.
Brush again with some of the egg white mixture.
Cool on wire.
Reduce the heat to 425 f and spritz with water every few minutes for the first 15 minutes of baking.
Slash or cross hatch the bread with a sharp knife or lame.
Carefully remove the pot from the oven and place it on a trivet or heat safe surface.
Dust it with a little flour.
Preheat the oven to 450 f 230 c with the pot inside for 45 minutes 1 hour.
When bread is done use oven mitts to pull the pot out of your oven.
Place the baking sheet in the hot oven and immediately toss 3 4 ice cubes on the bottom of the oven this gives a delicious classic french bread crispness to the crust.
Close the oven door quickly.
To get the steam simply put an oven safe container on the bottom shelf of the oven and use a water spray pump to mist water over the loaves twice while it s baking instead of the egg wash the recipe mentions.
Using a serrated knife make a diagonal slice every 2 inches or so along the loaf of bread.
Seeing this simple recipe i thought i would give it a try.