Recipe - French Wheat Baguettes

1 pack Dry yeast
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 One half cup Warm water, divided, 105 to
115 degrees
3 One fourth cup Bread flour
1 cup Wholewheat flour
1 One half teaspoon Salt
Vegetable cooking spray
1 tablespoon Cornmeal

Dissolve yeast and sugar in One half cup warm water in a small bowl; let stand 5
minutes.

Place bread flour, wholewheat flour, and salt in food processor, and pulse
4 times or until blended. With processor on, slowly add yeast mixture and
remaining 1 cup warm water through food chute; process until dough leaves
sides of bowl and forms a ball. Process 15 additional seconds.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead 3 or 4 times.
Place the dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat
top. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85 degrees), free from drafts, 45
minutes or until doubled in bulk.

Punch the dough down, and turn out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 3
or 4 times. Cover and let rest 5 minutes. Divide the dough in half, and
roll each portion into a 17 x 9inch rectangle. Roll up each rectangle,
starting with a long edge, pressing firmly to eliminate air pockets; pinch
ends to seal. Place each roll, seam side down, in an 18inchlong baguette
pan coated with cooking spray and sprinkled with cornmeal. Cover and let
rise 45 minutes or until doubled in bulk.

Uncover the dough; using a sharp knife, make 6 diagonal cuts One fourth inch deep
across top of loaves. Spray loaves with water. Bake at 400 degrees for 25
minutes or until loaves sound hollow when tapped. Remove from pans; cool on
wire racks. Yield: 2 loaves, 12 servings per loaf.

Per serving: 87 Calories; 0g Fat (4% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 18g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 135mg Sodium

NOTES : To make in 9 x 5inch loaf pans, roll dough into 2 (14 x 8inch)
rectangles; roll up into loaves. Let rise until doubled. Bake at 375
degrees for 35 minutes.

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 138

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #423 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.