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Sublime Pain de Champagne

Sublime Pain de Champagne Ingredients: wheat flours, bread, unenriched wheat flour, white, cake, enriched wheat flours, bread, unenriched salt, table leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry water, bottled, generi...

Sublime Pain de Champagne

Ingredients:
wheat flours, bread, unenriched
wheat flour, white, cake, enriched
wheat flours, bread, unenriched
salt, table
leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry
water, bottled, generic

Directions:
Put all the ingredients including the dry yeast in a bread machine and start the "dough kneading" program.
Take it out 6 minutes in.
Round off the dough, place on a baking sheet lined with kitchen parchment paper, and leave for the first rising.
Use your oven's "bread rising" setting set to 30C for 60 minutes.
The 1st rising is done if the dough has doubled in volume, and if a hole made with your finger does not fill back in.
Punch the dough down to deflate it using your palms.
Round off the dough again, and place it seam side down covered with plastic and a tightly wrung out moistened kitchen towel.
Leave to rest for 20 minutes.
As you wait for the dough to finish resting, dust your banneton (bread rising mold) with bread flour using a tea strainer.
After the dough has rested, slap it down again lightly with your palms, round it off again and place in the banneton with the seam side up.
The 2nd rising.
Use your oven's "bread rising" setting at 30C for 50 minutes.
When the dough has finished rising, start preheating the oven to 250C immediately.
Gently, carefully, invert the dough from the banneton onto a baking sheet lined with kitchen parchment paper.
Slash the top.
When the oven has reached temperature, lower the heat to 220C, bake the bread for 22 minute and it's done.
The loaf on the left here was baked with the ingredients amounts listed.
The one on the right has 1 tablespoon less water.
The one of the left not only looks better, it also has a better, moister texture.