Sub Roll/ Baguette Bread
I recently subscribed to Living Without Magazine. I love it. The bread in this recipe was inspired by their baguette bread in the August/September 2009 issue and has become one of my favorites. I use it for so many things from slicing and serving with spaghetti, to dipping in egg and making French toast. I have also made a cheese steak sub with the bread. It is soft and pliable and makes me feel happy inside. Yeah bread! On my next batch I will add some spices, maybe garlic or Italian seasoning and an increase in salt. The texture is wonderful but the bread itself is a little bland.
Flour Blend
1 ¼ cup sorghum flour
½ cup arrowroot starch
½ cup potato starch
1 cup tapioca starch
1 cup brown rice flour
And now it’s down to business. The flour blend mix makes a bit more than I need, so I save it in the refrigerator.
Ingredients
3 cups flour blend
2 T granulated sugar
1 T xanthan gum
3 T yeast
1 tsp. salt
¾ cup milk
½ cup warm water
1 tsp. lemon juice
2 eggs
3 T. olive oil
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two baguette pans with canola oil. If you do not have baguette pans, form two 12 inch long by 4 inch wide baguette shapes with aluminum foil.
2. Heat the milk to about 90 degrees and add the yeast and the sugar.
3. Mix together the dry ingredients.
4. Add the lemon juice, eggs and oil to the bubbling yeast mixture
5. Add to the dry ingredients in your mixer. Beat for two minutes. Add the reserved water as needed to form a “slightly wetter than gluten-full bread“ dough.
6. Divide the dough in half. With wet hands, form into tow long skinny caterpillars-better known as baguettes.
7. Cover with oiled plastic wrap and let rise for about 30 minutes.
Once your dough has about doubled in size, spritz it with some water and bake it. It takes about 30 minutes. You know it is finished when the bumps and grooves on the top of your loaf start turning brown. If you are looking for a more official answer, the bread should be about 190-200 degrees.
ENJOY. I do. This bread never lasts for long at my house!
