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Easy French Bread

Easy French Bread Ingredients: wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched sugars, granulated salt, table leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry oil, olive, salad or cooking water, bottled, generic Directions: I...

Easy French Bread

Ingredients:
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
sugars, granulated
salt, table
leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry
oil, olive, salad or cooking
water, bottled, generic

Directions:
In a bowl, mix 5 cups of flour, sugar, salt, and yeast.
Stir in oil and water.
Turn onto lightly flour surface and knead for 6-8 minute adding flour as required to form a nice elastic dough.
Let rest for 10 minute.
Divide into 3 and roll into 14 inch long (approx.)
rectangles.
Roll each up jelly-roll fashion style, pinching long edges closed.
Turn ends under and let rise on greased baking sheets for 1 hour.
Put a bowl of hot water on bottom rack of oven and preheat to 400F.
Bake 15 minute.
Take bowl of water out, turn oven down to 350 F and continue baking for another 20 to 25 minute.
Cool on racks.