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Happy Sunday Bread Heads! This week we’re going to be making French Bread in the boule style. Also, since you all have been so good, there will be a recipe to turn your French Bread into French Toast!

French bread is really old school. It has four ingredients, flour, water, yeast and salt. That is it. But from those basic ingredients you can get one of the all time best breads, if you are willing to take the time to do it right.

This is one of the few recipes where for the very best results you should go and find some hard wheat bread flour. This flour has more gluten in it which is important for forming the large bubbles in the dough that give it the distinctive texture and flavor of French Bread. Because of this it will take extra time, so plan ahead!

The other important factor is the three risings as opposed the normal two of most breads. This combined with the high cooking temperature make this simple bread so distinctive.

So, away we go!