White Baguette Bread

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so what do I do with the rice flour, or have I not read this recipe correctly?

I would love to make this bread, thankyou for all your lovely recipes, I find them very encouraging

Mrs pauline  stacey

The butter will prevent it going stale so quickly, 
I usually freeze it and use a quarter at a time.

Mrs Mary Downes

Irish Soda Bread with buttermilk

3 cups of brown spelt flour
1 cup of white spelt sour 
1 tsp bio carbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 and 1/2 ozs. Unsalted butter
2  cartons buttermilk

Sieve flour, salt and bio carb. Into a bowl.
Rub in butter until  like fine breadcrumbs.
Add virtually  all buttermilk and mix With wooden spoon.
Put on worktop and use you hands to bring it all together.
Roll into ball, it does not have to be smooth.
Flatten to approx 2 ins. Cut cross on top and put on baking tray and bake in preheated oven 180c or 170c Fan oven for 40 mins.
Tap back and if hollow sound it is baked.

DO NOT USE  MIXER

I make all my own bread and find the qty of 3kg flour for baguettes a bit daunting. Is this correct. you don't mention how many pieces this makes.
Malcolm 

<blockquote>Hi Malcolm - woops! We made a mistake - you're right, 3kg is far too much. The actual amount is 300g, this has now been amended. Thanks for pointing this out, and sorry for the confusion! </blockquote>

Mr Malcolm Giles

Can I ask what does the vitamin c do?
<blockquote>Hi Eileen. Vitamin C (or Ascorbic acid) increases the volume and lift of the bread. It creates an acidic environment in which the yeast can work better (hence the lift) and it also helps to act as a preservative.</blockquote>

Mrs Eileen Loader

This is not a a review, more of a request for help

I cannot knead by hand, I have a small bread machine.

can I supplement, ie. alter the recipes for bread by doing the mix in my bread machine... on the dough mix, and then take out and finish off in my electric oven please?

<blockquote>Many people find they are unable to knead by hand. By all means get a machine to do the work for you if this helps! Use a dough hook on a kitchen mixer, or knead the dough in a bread machine before shaping by hand to pop into the oven. </blockquote>