Making your own baguettes is easy!

Now you can make baguettes in your own home! Become a real baker and amaze your family and friends by making baguettes just as tasty as the authentic article.
Panéo gives you the classic baguette recipe below, with tips and advice for personalising your loaves and some delicious recipes to guide you in your creativity.

Add the ingredients to the bread pan in the following order: water, salt, flour and yeast. Place the pan in the machine. Select the baguette programme (9). Press the 'start – stop' button.

• Dust your hands with flour to prevent them from becoming too sticky and gently remove the dough from the pan.
• Shape the dough into a ball and divide it into 4 evenly sized pieces.
• Take a small ball of dough: flatten it out with the palm of your hand on a floured surface in order to obtain a rectangle.

• Fold the rectangle twice, press down the dough, then make sure the join is at the top.
  Repeat this operation to perfect your rectangle.
• Then wind the dough around your thumb, while pressing the join with the palm of your other hand. Repeat this operation 3 or 4 times in order to obtain an evenly formed baguette equivalent in length to your baking receptacle.
• Then roll the baguette back and forth and repeat the above operations to make each of your baguettes.

• Slash the top with a blade or a serrated knife.
• Finally, in order to obtain lovely golden baguettes, moisten them with a brush.
• Place them on your baking receptacle in the bread machine and press the 'start – stop' button to start baking (55 minutes).
• When the machine beeps, remove your baguettes.

 

> Adding flavour to your baguettes, or your own personal touch to the recipe:

• Add your own choice of ingredients during the kneading stage, a beep will sound to let you know when you can incorporate them: sesame seeds, cereals, or even cheese, walnuts, hazelnuts, olives or lardons.
• Chop them finely before incorporating them into the ingredients.

> Adding a more 'Mediterranean' flavour:

• Incorporate a little olive oil into the dough (1 coffee spoon, according to your taste) and baste your baguettes before baking them!

> Decorating your baguettes and obtaining spectacular results:

• Prepare your baguettes in the traditional way, moisten them before slashing them, then roll them in the seeds of your choices: poppy, linseed, sunflower or sesame.

> Recreating the 'wheat sheaf' loaves that you see at the baker's: it's so easy!

• Use some scissors to slash the tops of the baguettes every 2 or 3 cms (make bold incisions).
• Then open out the sections from right to left along the length of the baguette to create a wheat sheaf shape.

> Decorating sweet baguettes:

• Again using your scissors, you can make smaller incisions on the tops of your baguettes: the effect will be guaranteed for all your sweet buns or brioches!