The Art of French Pastry

ends facing the center (otherwise they will burn during baking). 9 When the dough has doubled in vol ...

side and shape it into a ball by making clockwise circular motions. At all times the sides of your han ...

second mold. If you do not have 2 molds and want to make 2 breads, place the other half of the dough ...

plastic wrap or a towel. Let the dough rise at room temperature until it doubles in size, about 1½ hours. ...

kougelhofs on a sheet pan, leaving at least 2 inches of space between them. 12 Bake for 1 hour fo ...

from the oven using oven mitts and flip over onto a wire rack. Remove the breads from the molds and ...

a paper towel. They will take on the wonderful aroma of baked kougelhof in time. IT’S DONE WHEN IT’S ...

STORAGE The baked kougelhof is good for 2 days at room temperature wrapped in a towel or a cloth bread bag; ...

can easily take 1 hour for a loaf of bread. Otherwise the leftover steam will be trapped in the plastic ...

Kougelhof Molds Each time you make kougelhof the ceramic mold absorbs the scent of your baking bread, and th ...

to use pottery and not something like a metal Bundt pan, which would bake the bread too quickly. Although ...

directly from Alsace, there is a site called www.alsace- depot.com that will ship. You can also bake ...

normally baked in ceramic molds, but in Alsace we have been baking our kougelhof this way since the Middle ...

stars for the Christmas holidays, lambs for Easter, couples for marriages, and more. I have been collecting antiqu ...

JACQUY’S TAKEAWAYS The rule of thumb for yeast doughs is that you fill your pan halfway full with dough. This ...

causes it to become soggy. Bread molds faster in the refrigerator than it does when kept at room temperature ...

up smells from your refrigerator. You can now get silicone molds for kougelhof from the company Demarle. They’r ...

a sheet of individual pieces. I recommend using 75 grams of dough per individual mold. http://www.demarleathome.com ...

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