28 June 2015

Focaccia / Basic Baguette

Sources YouTube Voila - Voila!, Serious Eats, Alexandra Cooks
Same dough, one in a pan one not:

  • Bread flour 500g
  • Water 385g
  • 10g salt
  • 2g yeast

Mix with wooden handle until no dry flour
Leave covered on countertop overnight or 7 hours-ish daytime


Focaccia
  • 30g olive oil into baking tin (23inch sq, or the slightly larger rectangle)
  • Dough into pan then fold, coat in oil, seam down, spread gently to to mostly fill the pan
  • Cover with tea towel or put pan in microwave, leave to rise 1.5 to 2 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 220C
  • With fingertips, push and stretch to evenly fill all corners. create dimples, press and jiggle.
  • 20g olive oil over the top, sprinkle with salt and rosemary
  • Bake 25m
  • Wire rack to cool, brush or pour olive oil in pan over the top, don't cut too early

Baguette
  • Preheat oven (on conventional steam setting) with baking stone if using on low shelf at least 45 mins
  • Flour top of dough and worktop, careful pour, pad into rectangle then cut into two lengths
  • Boiling water into pan for steam 
  • Get them onto baking stone somehow, parchment is ok
  • 25 mins ish
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