French Love Recipe

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Recipe for Love (French Bread)

French 16th century


August 24, 2015

Part 1

Make like regular bread, but before baking add french vanilla ice cream.

Part 2

Make sure to bake for slightly longer, as the French vanilla must melt.

Part 3

For extra taste, manufacture a baguette. Baguette details are given below.

Baguette Details (from Wikipedia)

The baguette de tradition franaise is made from wheat flour, water, yeast,
and common salt. It does not contain additives, but it may contain up to 2%
broad bean flour, up to 0.5% soya flour, and up to 0.3% wheat malt flour.
Standard baguettes however may contain a certain number of additives. Depending on those used either in the original flour or those added separately
to the bread ingredients, a baguette ? or any other French bread ? may not
be considered vegan or kosher.
While a regular baguette is made with a direct addition of bakers yeast,
it is not unusual for artisan-style loaves to be made with a pre-ferment or
poolish, biga or other bread pre-ferments to increase flavor complexity
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and other characteristics, as well as the addition of whole-wheat flour, or


other grains such as rye.
Baguettes are closely connected to France, though they are made around
the world. In France, not all long loaves are baguettes; for example, a short,
almost rugby ball shaped loaf is a batard (literally, bastard), or a torpedo
loaf in English; its origin is variously explained, but undocumented. Another tubular shaped loaf is known as a flute, also known in the United
States as a parisienne. Flutes closely resemble baguettes and weigh more or
less than these, depending on the region. A thinner loaf is called a ficelle
(string). A short baguette is sometimes known as a baton (stick), or even
referred to using the English translation French stick. None of these are
officially defined, either legally or, for instance, in major dictionaries, any
more than the baguette. French breads are also made in forms such as a
miche, which is a large pan loaf, and a boule, literally ball in French, a large
round loaf. Sandwich-sized loaves are sometimes known as demi-baguettes
or tiers. In France a baguette must weigh 250 grams (8.75 ounces), a batard
500 grams (17.5 ounces) and a ficelle 100 grams (3.5 ounces). Baguettes,
either relatively short single-serving size or cut from a longer loaf, are very
often used for sandwiches, usually of the submarine sandwich type, but also
panini. They are often sliced and served with pate or cheese. As part of the
traditional continental breakfast in France, slices of baguette are spread with
butter and jam and dunked in bowls of coffee or hot chocolate. In the United
States, French bread loaves are sometimes split in half to make French bread
pizza.
Baguettes are generally made as partially free-form loaves, with the loaf
formed with a series of folding and rolling motions, raised in cloth-lined baskets or in rows on a flour-impregnated towel, called a couche, and baked
either directly on the hearth of a deck oven or in special perforated pans
designed to hold the shape of the baguette while allowing heat through the
perforations. American-style French bread is generally much fatter and is
not baked in deck ovens, but in convection ovens.
Outside France, baguettes are also made with other doughs. For example, the
Vietnamese banh mi uses a high proportion of rice flour, while many North
American bakeries make whole wheat, multigrain, and sourdough baguettes
alongside French-style loaves. In addition, even classical French-style recipes
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vary from place to place, with some recipes adding small amounts of milk,
butter, sugar, or malt extract, depending on the desired flavour and properties in the final loaf.

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