Bread Machine French Bread

[Colleen-NC]

I have a large Williams Sonoma machine, I think this would work in a regular machine as long as its not a small one....


1 cup water at about 110*
2 1/4 c. unbleached ap flour
1 teas salt
1/2 teas sugar
1 tablespoon active dry yeast

Put in machine in order listed
Use dough cycle approx 1.5 hour
Take out & shape into loaf and put on greases cookie sheet & let sit 1 hour in warm spot till doubled in size.

450* for about 20 mins

[Colleen-NC]

I have also added:

Fresh thyme, rosemary, oregano to make herb loaf...very good!!

[aero]

Your additions sound great. I am not sure what size mine would be considered. Average I guess.

[elizabethfl]

thanks Colleen this is just what I wanted. Two more question, do you shape the loaf in the same shape as the "store bought" loaves and do you ever add olive oil?
I have a Panasonic machine and it can handle 3 to 5 cups of flour (small, med, large)

I make bread in the machine (have not bought store bought bread in a long, long time), but I don't like the shape of the loaves so

[Colleen-NC]

omg....I forgot the water...1 cup at about 110*...& no I don't add olive oil but I have thought about it.....

I take it out and shape it into a long loaf & let rise 1 hour and then bake it. I have also thought about putting oil on the outside with either herds or seeds or sea salt.