Are you craving the delightful aroma and irresistible taste of freshly baked French bread but don't have the time or expertise to make it from scratch? Look no further! With the convenience of a bread machine, you can easily whip up a perfect French loaf that will impress your family and friends. In this comprehensive guide, we'll take you on a culinary journey, exploring the secrets of crafting an authentic French loaf using your trusty bread machine. From selecting the right ingredients to mastering the perfect baking techniques, we'll guide you every step of the way. Get ready to indulge in the crispy crust and soft, airy crumb of a homemade French loaf that will transport you to the heart of France.
Here are our top 10 tried and tested recipes!
FAILPROOF FRENCH BREAD (BREAD MACHINE)
This makes two loaves of long baguette type French bread that has wonderful flavor and is so easy to make!
Provided by Marie
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 35m
Yield 2 loaves, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Place ingredients in bread machine according to manufacturers directions.
- Start machine on dough setting.
- When dough cycle is complete, remove dough with floured hands and cut in half on floured surface.
- Take each half of dough and roll to make a loaf about 12 inches long in the shape of French bread.
- Place on greased baking sheet and cover with a towel.
- Let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown, turning pan around once halfway during baking.
- Remove baked loaves to wire racks to cool.
BREAD MACHINE FRENCH BREAD (SIMPLE, SIMPLE, SIMPLE)
Make and share this Bread Machine French Bread (simple, simple, simple) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by princess buttercup
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 3h5m
Yield 1 loaf
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- put in machine in order and push buttons to make a 1.5 Lb french loaf.
BREAD MACHINE CRUSTY FRENCH BREAD
Steps:
- Gather the ingredients.
- Add the room temperature water, oil, dry milk, all-purpose flour, bread flour, sugar, salt, and yeast to the bread machine according to your manufacturer's preferred order.
- Use the French bread setting on your machine but remove the dough after the last kneading cycle before the baking cycle begins. Or use the dough cycle, punch down the dough to let air escape, let it rise again (45 minutes to 1 hour), knead lightly, and let it rise again (another 45 minutes to 1 hour) before forming into loaves.
- Spray or lightly oil a large cookie sheet and sprinkle with the cornmeal.
- To form the loaves, transfer the dough (it will be soft) to a lightly floured board. Sprinkle with a little all-purpose flour.
- Cut the dough into 2 portions and roll each portion into a rectangle about 12 to 15 inches wide (add more flour as needed).
- Starting at the long end, roll up the dough, pinching the seams well. Repeat with the next roll.
- Place the loaves on the prepared cookie sheet; cover with a clean dishtowel and let rise another hour.
- While the loaves are rising, preheat the oven to 400 F. Place a pie plate on the lower rack of the oven and add about 1 inch of boiling water. Place the pan with the dough on the middle rack and bake the bread for 15 minutes.
- Lower the heat to 350 F and bake for another 25 minutes until golden brown.
- About 5 minutes before the loaves are done, mix the egg white with the cold water in a small bowl and brush the loaves with the egg wash .
- Once baked, remove from the oven and let cool.
- Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 186 kcal, Carbohydrate 35 g, Cholesterol 16 mg, Fiber 1 g, Protein 6 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 365 mg, Sugar 1 g, Fat 2 g, ServingSize 2 loaves (serves 8), UnsaturatedFat 0 g
BREAD MACHINE FRENCH BREAD DOUGH
Easy to make enjoyed by all recipe for your bread machine. We make 1 loaf about 12in long often using it for homemade garlic bread as well as sandwich bread. Also we have made dinner rolls (approx 9) and it works just fine for these. This recipe came from our bread machine booklet and after trying several different recipes we always revert back to this no fail one. Please enjoy. Feel free to post your review, we love to hear your comments and suggestions.
Provided by Debi and Johnny
Categories Breads
Time 25m
Yield 1 loaf
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Add Water to your bread machine first, then add the sugar, salt, flour and yeast. Put it on your dough cycle. Check consistency of dough during cycle as you may need to add a little water or flour depending on your bread maker. When complete, roll dough out to a 12in long loaf of bread and allow to rest on a lightly floured baking sheet covered by a towel for 1 hour. With a knife cut three diagonal slashes across the top of the bread and then glaze. Bake in a preheated oven at 400F/205C for 15 to 20 minutes or until done. Allow to cool on wire tray, then enjoy.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1675.4, Fat 4.9, SaturatedFat 0.8, Sodium 2350, Carbohydrate 351.9, Fiber 14, Sugar 15.8, Protein 48.4
SWEET HONEY FRENCH BREAD
This is a French bread that has a light, crispy crunch, and a sweet flavor! I like to drizzle honey over the bread while it is baking. Mmmmm. Yummy!
Provided by Michele
Categories Bread Yeast Bread Recipes White Bread Recipes
Time 3h5m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Add to your bread machine per manufacturer instructions. While bread is baking, drizzle with honey if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 100.9 calories, Carbohydrate 19.5 g, Fat 1.2 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 2.9 g, SaturatedFat 0.2 g, Sodium 130 mg, Sugar 2.8 g
FRENCH LOAVES
My kids love to help me make this delicious bread recipe. It's quite easy, and they enjoy the fact that they can be eating fresh bread in less than two hours! -Denise Boutin, Grand Isle, Vermont
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 45m
Yield 2 loaves (12 slices each).
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add salt, sugar and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Shape into 12-in.-long loaves., Place seam side down on a greased baking sheet. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. , Preheat oven to 450°. Sprinkle loaves with cornmeal. With a sharp knife, make four shallow slashes across the top of each loaf. Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 97 calories, Fat 1g fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 198mg sodium, Carbohydrate 19g carbohydrate (0 sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 3g protein.
FRENCH BREAD LOAF - BREAD MACHINE
Taste of Home Feb 2010. Recipe prep time does not include ABM dough cycle or additional time to rise. Makes a nice small loaf perfect for an pasta dinner.
Provided by invictus
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 20m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Add all ingredients except cornmeal to your bread machine in the order listed. Use dough cycle only.
- Remove dough from bread machine and shape into loaf. Sprinkle with cornmeal. Let rise until double, about 1 hour.
- Bake at 450 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 135, Fat 0.5, SaturatedFat 0.1, Sodium 293.2, Carbohydrate 27.9, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 0.4, Protein 4.3
ONION FRENCH BREAD LOAVES
Since I love variety in my cooking, I tried adding dried minced onion to my usual recipe in attempts to copy a bread I had tasted, creating these two tasty loaves. Using the bread machine on the dough setting is a great timesaver. -Ruth Fueller, Barmstedt, Germany
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 45m
Yield 2 loaves (3/4 pound and 16 slices each).
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In bread machine pan, place the first six ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select dough setting (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed). , When cycle is completed, turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Cover and let rest for 15 minutes. Divide dough in half. Roll each portion into a 15x10-in. rectangle. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seams to seal. Pinch ends to seal and tuck under. , Sprinkle the cornmeal onto a greased baking sheet. Place loaves on pan. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes. Brush with egg yolk. Make 1/4-in.-deep cuts 2 in. apart in each loaf. , Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack. Freeze option: Securely wrap and freeze cooled loaves in heavy-duty foil. To use, place a foil-wrapped loaf on a baking sheet and reheat in a 450° oven for 10-15 minutes. Carefully remove foil; return to oven for a few minutes to crisp crust.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 46 calories, Fat 0 fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 7mg cholesterol, Sodium 148mg sodium, Carbohydrate 10g carbohydrate (1g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 2g protein.
SMALL ULTRA-LIGHT HEALTHY FRENCH BREAD LOAF (ABM) BREAD MACHINE
This carefully adapted bread machine recipe makes a superb, wonderfully light and open-textured French style loaf, but smaller than most - ideal for one or two people. This recipe is also much lower calorie and lower fat than most and is sugar-free, lactose-free and egg-free. The small size is perfect if, like me, you live alone and adore fresh baked bread but find most bread machine loaves are just too big unless you eat nothing but bread all day or you don't mind it a bit stale / defrosted. This is my favourite loaf and I make it a lot. A couple of things I've learned from the various modifications I've experimented with are: Don't use water COLD and straight from the tap if possible - do let it warm up to room temperature before using for this loaf. French loaves are made differently to other breads and this is quite important. I used to use filtered tap water, but found that any cheap bottled spring water makes sufficient improvements in taste that its worth using if you have it to hand. I almost always add Vitamin C Powder (you get it from Pharmacy) as it is a recognised major flour improver and additionally helps the bread keep fresh for longer. Original recipe called for 15g butter but I 've found this is vastly excessive unless you care for the buttery richness. I do in my scones and shortbread - not in my white bread. Have personally found that 9g of (firm) baking margarine gives wonderful taste and texture. Commercially, vegetable oil is used for French bread and I like it just fine with oil - at least for health purposes - it becomes more savoury too. 1/2 a tablespoon is plenty. If you are looking for a small, exceedingly healthy white loaf with wonderfully light and moist texture then do give this a run - I'm sure you'll be delighted!
Provided by Ethan UK
Categories Yeast Breads
Time 52m
Yield 7-8 slices, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Remove pan from Bread machine and place on a electronic kitchen scale, and zero scale.
- Weigh 210ml (210ml water weighs 210g) and rest of ingredients carefully into the pan, in the order listed (if you have the time, do have a read through of the notes :).
- Select French Loaf cycle (or Wholewheat/Wholemeal cycle if no French Loaf cycle available) and select crust/firmness if necessary required for your machine. (I feel that this loaf benefits from a fairly firm crust - as long as it's not burnt!).
- Start Machine.
- Notes:.
- Time listed is for the actual baking part of my machine's French Bread cycle. They vary by manufacturer.
- I took this recipe originally from a machine which had a 6-hour French loaf cycle but my machine makes a French loaf in 4 hours. My mum's does it in 2 3/4 hours. I've found that the results are pretty consistent regardless of machine, although you occasionally need to increase/decrease amount of yeast to marry the recipe to the 'rise' component of your machine's cycle.
- My machine has an un-overrideable 20 minute pre-heat before it does anything whatsoever whenever I use this cycle, so I need to take the following precautions so that the yeast doesn't make contact with any liquid before kneading starts which I recommend to you:.
- When pouring the water do try to pour gently trying to avoid slashing up sides.
- When adding the flour, do try to cover the water completely if possible.
- When adding the yeast, if necessary/inclined try making a dip (or 'well') in the top of the flour and carefully pouring the yeast into the dip/well.
- If using yeast in sachet form it's worth measuring it onto a teaspoon first and holding some of the sachet (depending on sachet size).
- Here in Europe most of our cooking is weight-based rather than volume based.
- A set of electronic kitchen scales with 1 gram graduations can be quite cheap if you hunt around and more than any other cooking and baking they really come into their own when it comes to bread-making, although I usually still use spoon measures for salt and yeast, and for liquid oil when I use it. Gives bomb-proof results, every single time!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 179.7, Fat 1.4, SaturatedFat 0.2, Sodium 302.9, Carbohydrate 35.9, Fiber 1.3, Sugar 0.1, Protein 5
CRUSTY FRENCH LOAF
A delicate texture makes this French bread absolutely wonderful. I sometimes use this French bread recipe to make breadsticks, which I brush with melted butter and sprinkle with garlic powder. -Deanna Naivar, Temple, Texas
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 45m
Yield 1 loaf (16 pieces).
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add sugar, oil, salt and 2 cups flour. Beat until blended. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a stiff dough., Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch dough down; return to bowl. Cover and let rise for 30 minutes. , Preheat oven to 375°. Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into a 16x2-1/2-in. loaf with tapered ends. Sprinkle cornmeal over a greased baking sheet; place loaf on baking sheet. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 25 minutes. , Beat egg white and cold water; brush over dough. With a sharp knife, make diagonal slashes 2 in. apart across top of loaf. Bake until golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 109 calories, Fat 2g fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 225mg sodium, Carbohydrate 20g carbohydrate (2g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 3g protein.
Tips:
- Use high-quality bread flour for the best results.
- Make sure your yeast is active and fresh.
- Proof the yeast in warm water before adding it to the bread machine.
- Add the ingredients to the bread machine in the correct order.
- Select the correct bread setting on your bread machine.
- Allow the bread to cool slightly before slicing and serving.
Conclusion:
Making French bread in a bread machine is a simple and easy process that can result in a delicious and satisfying loaf of bread. By following the tips and instructions provided in this article, you can create a perfect French loaf that is perfect for sandwiches, toast, or just enjoying on its own.
Are you curently on diet or you just want to control your food's nutritions, ingredients? We will help you find recipes by cooking method, nutrition, ingredients...
Check it out »
You'll also love