So, this month’s Daring Bakers’ Challenge was to make French Bread a la Julia Child. Well, we love us some Julia here at Wish I Were Baking – so we followed the recipe … mostly. We did include a bit of whole wheat flour, rather than simply making plain old white bread. Yes, we know, that’s a break with the rules … but we also know that we’ve got to eat the stuff, so we figured we could include a bit of whole-wheat flour without departing from the spirit of the thing. So. Voila! French Bread, a la Julia Child.
Do check out the rest of the people who’ve actually followed the recipe at Daring Bakers Blogroll. We’ve a house guest, so we’re traveling all over the country this week, and could barely scrape together the brain cells to realize that it’s time to do the Daring Baker thing. I’m sure that the rest of the DB’s have done a better job of writing this thing up, so go visit them!
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I hope you’re having fun travelling all over this week. Color me green with envy!
I don’t blame you for adding WW- sometimes you need to adjust to make sense for you.
Take care!
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I’m jealous that you get to go traveling this week! It’s been too long since I was able to travel! Your bread looks great.
Please post about your adventures! Have fun! Great looking bread too. 🙂
I want to you you!
tsk tsk breaking ze rulezz.. whole wheat, that would make it a pain complet, très francais! And very yummy! Glad you could make it. Have fun travelling around!
For info about our travels, we post at HobbitsAbroad as well – because, really, we’re hobbits … and we’re abroad at the moment.
So how did it taste, with whole wheat flour?
I don’t think Julia would have minded a bit of Whole Wheat added 😉
Thanks so much for baking with us this month! Sara and I enjoyed hosting you and the other DBers.
love st. julia’s french bread! and she would totally be ok with the whole wheat flour. have fun with the house guests. stay dry and take care!
it looks fantastic! I often make it with whole wheat..it is fantastic that way.
I think you whole wheat bread looks out standing, I would do something special as we already spend so much time readying and underatanding those 15pages of the recipe, but it is worth every cent!
You did a lovely job on your bread. The crumb looks great.
Natalie @ Gluten A Go Go
Short and sweet write up, but gorgeous, if a bit dark (hahaha) French Bread.
Envious that you are getting to see so much of Scotland, but happy for y’all.
Beautiful bread!!
Great looking bread! I like the look of it with som whole weat in, I do think the taste of mine would have benefited from such an adjustment too…
Great looking bread! I think I’d like the addition of wheat flour in the baguettes:)
The bread looks perfect for a cold winter day with a big bowl of soup! Great job again!
David,
The bread looks just fantastic! Hope you’re having a great time travelling. Wish I could imbibe in some Single Malts…!! So think of me!