Never have I been so impressed by progress made. I have made bread multiple times before and formed baguette type loaves with French dough before too. However some of the techniques used by Julia Child made this truly superior to other breads I have made.
Yes, thats right the Daring Bakers strike again! I was really excited by this month’s challenge and even more excited with the result. I think the key thing that I learned from the recipe was her method of shaping the dough. It took me almost as long to shape the dough for a baguette as it did to roll out a pie crust last month – but I think the end result was much better for it and could improve over time. I highly, highly recommend this recipe. I will definitely be making it again.
Our challengers this month were Sara from I Like to Cook and BreadChick Mary from the Sourdough. You can check out the full recipe here.
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Looks lovely!
Your bread looks great! I agree this was a really delicious and rewarding bread to bake.
Excellent bread. I agree, the technique makes a lot of difference.
Gorgeous breads! You did a fabulous job! I hadn’t done French bread before, but I wound up loving this recipe!
Beautiful baguettes! Great job!
Great looking baguettes! I really could not figure out how to do all of that folding for the shaping part…
They look awesome! You did a fabulous job.
That is the beauty of Julia’s recipes, they are teaching recipes and not just long recipes. Your baguettes look perfect.
Thanks so much for baking with Sara and I!
Yum your bread looks delicious.
I have to hand it to you ladies, this looks like it was quite the task!
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Your bread looks great. It definitely must be a technique that gets easier the more a person does it, so I hope to try more with yeast breads this year.
love that last picture – it looks great!
Beautiful bread!
Wonderful job! It looks fantastic.
Me too, I’ll be making it again and again! Practice makes perfect!
I love your photos, very beautiful!
wow, look at that crumb! super job!
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Great job on the bread!
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