Vlap started a thread about this kind of bread a year or so ago. I finally got around to baking it. It starts as a very stiff levain made with your sourdough starter. The final dough has white, wheat, are rye flours and is a pretty stiff and dry, so it's not light and full of air pockets like most French bread. It's fairly dense, but very moist. I added steam to firm the crust. It has diced bacon in it also. I used bacon that I cured and smoked a couple months ago.

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One of these is going to the guy that gave me the hundred lb bag of flour.

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I think we'll keep this one.

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I'll give this one away since it looks so nice with the diagonal slashes.

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It has a wonderful smokey aroma.

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Ahhhhh, life is good............. FOR MY FAMILY!!!! I'll eat a small toasted piece.

The family says this bread is fantastic, and I believe them. :thumb:

BTW. I'm 71 lbs lighter as of today and I am off my blood pressure medication too.

Looks awesome, I'll take a loaf please. Congrats on your weight loss and off the meds...poi-nts

Looks awesome, I'll take a loaf please. Congrats on your weight loss and off the meds...poi-nts

Yeah what 13 said...... nice job

Get on it Big Rebar Concrete Daddy!...:thumb: So glad you better...Man...ya know YOU SUCK!...:bounce: Cause that bread is scale clikin right! Uhhh...slide me a slice with a dab o' butter please!

71??? I thought I did good after my divorce(15 years ago), I lost 50 on the booze and hot dog diet, people asked me how much I had lost, I told em 170 lbs. Well, , , she went 120 and I figured it was cumulative:lol:
Great job on the bread too Tom and congrats.:thumb:

WOW Tom thats some beautiful lookin bread!! I sure would like to try making some sour dough one of these day..poi-nts

Alot of them there french breads start with the word "pain" Looks good Tom. :thumb:

Hey...OBTW...where'd ya get that peel?

That's just some beautiful bread.:thumb: I have to give you poi-nts not only for the bread, but for losing the weight.
Mike, you can get a peel like that at almost any restaurant supply house. Looks just like mine.

Hey Alx did your cat eat your tounge? you dont talk to good no more.

Good looking bread and congrats on the weight loss, im going on a serious diet so i wont be looking here so much anymore lol and not its not a stupid new years resolution it was that hideous fat bastard i saw on a webcam the other day that did it for me jeez !!:lol:

Beee-utiful! Damn, man...yer gonna bankrupt those po' drug companies at this rate... :lol:

Nice work Gunny.Damn fine bread and congrats on the weight losspoi-nts

that and some beans..................

You had me at "It has bacon in it":lol: Nicely done:thumb:

88, I got that at a restaurant supply like mentioned previously. If memory serves me, it was about 13 bucks.

Wow that looks good:drooling:. Looks like it's already buttered.

You have a link to the original thread?

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Dayyyyum!!! That looks fantastic. I just finished supper and still find it poi-nts worthy. :hail: to the Bread Man!

Dayyyyum!!! That looks fantastic. I just finished supper and still find it poi-nts worthy. :hail: to the Bread Man!

Dude don't loaf about with the bread, do he? :lol:

Found the recipe (http://http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/3935/auvergne-rye-baguette-bacon) and will give it a try! Thanks Tom!

Man nice job are you taking orders????

Good looking bread and congrats on the weight loss, im going on a serious diet so i wont be looking here so much anymore lol and not its not a stupid new years resolution it was that hideous fat bastard i saw on a webcam the other day that did it for me jeez !!:lol:
:hail: Looks amazing!


Dieting here too....congrats on the loss.