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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> French >> French

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a large bowl sprinkle yeast and sugar over warm water and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. | 2. With a wooden spoon stir in 2 cups flour until combined. | 3. Stir in salt and 2 cups of the remaining flour until mixture forms a stiff dough. | 4. On a lightly floured surface knead dough with lightly floured hands for 8 minutes, or until smooth and elastic (or use KA mixer).adding more flour if needed to keep dough from sticking. | 5. Transfer to a lightly oiled deep bowl, turning to coast with oil. | 6. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2 hours. | 7. Punch down dough and form into 8-10 hoagie shaped rolls (or the dough can be shaped into 2 slender loaves about 10 inches long; or one large loaf.). | 8. Place rolls on an lipless baking sheet or pizza paddle lightly dusted with corn meal (or parchment paper), cover with lightly floured towel and let rise, until doubled in size, about 30 minutes (longer needed if making large loaves). | 9. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. | 10. In preheating oven, place heavy-duty lipless cookie sheet or bread baking stone. | 11. Make a slash down the center of each roll (or three diagonal slashes on the loaves) with a sharp knife. | 12. Slide bread from pizza paddle onto hot stone, Lightly spraying each roll/loaf with cold water. | 13. Carefully toss 1/2 cup water on oven floor (if using gas oven, place a heavy-duty oven-safe skillet or roasting pan on the the oven floor) and close door. | 14. Spritz dough 2 times during the first 3 minutes of baking. | 15. Bake until golden brown, about 12-30 minutes (depending on size of rolls/loaves). | 16. Allow bread to cool on wire rack. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
active yeast	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
sugar	2	tablespoons		110.124	27.5448	0.0	0.0
water	1 1/2	1/2		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
purpose flour	4 - 4 1/2	cups	unbleached	-	-	-	-
salt	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
cold water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
cornmeal	1/4	cup		110.41	23.4514	2.4766	1.0949

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.