My First Daring Bakers Challenge – Julia Child’s French Bread

Finally! I am a Daring Baker! And for my first challenge – it’s Julia Child’s French Bread from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, volume 2. Fifteen pages of recipe and I’ve only baked bread once before. I even went to our country house, cause that’s where the good oven is. I calculated that if I started at 2 am the bread would probably finished at around noon and I’ll have good light for taking pictures. But, alas, the outside temperature was -7°C, and maintaining proper room temperature using stove was extremely difficult. So, naturally, I had problems with the rises. But bread tasted great, it reminded me of Bosnian somun.

After I came back to Belgrade I gave it another try. For the recipe visit this month’s hosts Mary and Sara.