How to make Baguettes

How to make Baguettes

Ingredients

First dough

• 125g Bread flour
• 75 ml Water
• 1/2tsp yeast
• 1/2 Salt

2nd Dough

• 270g Bread Flour
• 30g Plain Flour 
• 200 ml Water
• 1/2 tsp Yeast
• 1 tsp salt

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients to the first dough and knead 5 min and leave to prove 2 hours in a warm place.
2. Next add the 2nd dough ingredients to a mixing bowl and then  knead adding the fist dough too in it adding water and knead 10 min.
3. Leave to prove in a warm place.
4. Next take the risen dough punch down and cut in to two equal parts.
5. Roll to a rectangle and roll to a log and roll to rectangle again and roll to a log and place in a baguette pan or in a tray and leave to prove cutting tops in an angle slightly.
6. Brush the tops when its double in size and bake 180 c until golden brown and once knock shold give a hollow sound.