Artisan Baguettes
 
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Recipe type: Bread
Ingredients
  • 4 cups einkorn wheat flour (or use 3½ cups regular flour)
  • 2 teaspoons instant yeast (also known as bread machine yeast)
  • 1 cup water
  • 1½ teaspoons Himalayan pink salt or sea salt
  • 1 tablespoon honey (optional)
Instructions
  1. Mix flour, yeast and salt in medium bowl.
  2. Heat water to 120-130 degrees.
  3. Stir honey (if using) into water and dissolve.
  4. Pour water into dry ingredients and stir with fork until smooth.
  5. Let dough rest for 10 minutes.
  6. Lightly flour a smooth surface and your hands.
  7. Knead dough by pressing palms into dough ball and rotating and flipping (repeat) for 10 minutes until dough is no longer sticky. It should be smooth and resilient.
  8. Divide dough into three equal portions.
  9. Roll out each section of dough with your hands into a long snake approximately 12"long by 1" wide.
  10. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly dust the parchment with flour.
  11. Place baguettes onto the parchment and pull up the parchment in between each to keep them from sticking together.
  12. Roll up two kitchen towels and place them on either side of the baguettes to help keep their shape.
  13. With a very sharp knife, make 5-6 diagonal cuts in the top of the baguettes.
  14. Lightly dust tops of baguettes with flour.
  15. Cover with a kitchen towel and let rise 1½ hours or until approximately doubled in size.
  16. Place an empty ovenproof, non-glass pan or bowl into your oven on the lowest rack. Keep a second rack in the middle of the oven for the baguettes.
  17. Then pre-heat your oven to 500 degrees.
  18. Grab some ice and set it next to the oven.
  19. Remove towels from the sheet of baguettes and place baguettes into the oven.
  20. Immediately dump the ice into the empty bowl that's in the oven and close the oven door.
  21. Turn the oven down to 450 degrees and bake for 15 minutes.
  22. Let cool on wire cooling rack and enjoy!
Recipe by at https://www.cookingupclean.com/artisan-baguettes/