New Orleans French Bread- Cajun Food Recipe

Ingredients:

2 packs active yeast (dry)
2 Tbsps refined sugar
2.5 c lukewarm water
1 beaten egg white (with one tsp water); use as glaze
7 c all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp salt

Instructions:

Add warm water the yeast, salt and sugar. Let it stand til dissolved. Then, stir then let stay til proofed and foamy (about ten minutes)

Pour five cups of flour into mixture, then blend. Add another cup of flour. Flour the working surface and put in dough. Knead til smooth, as well as very elastic. In a large bowl, spread butter. Place in dough, turn and coat the whole surface with the spread butter. Let it rise (cover the container) til double in size (for about one hour)

Press down dough in the middle. Let is stand for another fifteen minutes.

Spread butter in four pans (baguette pans preferred). Knead the dough 3-4 times and then divide to 4. Afterward, roll each piece to oblongs 7×15 inches each. Set in pan with the seam down. Using a sharp blade, cut 3-4 half inc deep slices on atop the loaf, then brush with prepared glaze. Then, let it rise again for approximately an hour.

Set the oven (450 degrees F) and bake bread for fifteen minutes. Lower heat (to 350 degrees F) and bake (’til bread top sounds hollow if tapped). Serve hot.

>> New Orleans French Bread- Cajun Food Recipe