Mix Flour & Salt for Baguette Bread Recipes

Mix Flour & Salt for Baguette Bread Recipes
My name is Brandon Sarkis and on behalf of Expert Village today I am going to show you how to make a real French baguette. The next thing we are going to do is we are going to take our flour and our salt and we are going to mix them in a bowl. One thing I neglected to mention is that you are going to need a couple of really good clean hands. I recommend taking your jewelry off. I am going to set the wedding ring over here and we are going to get started mixing this stuff together. I have got my flour and my salt here and I am going to dump that right in and then I am going to take my salt and dump that in there as well and spread everything all around. The reason that you put the salt in on top of the flour is that the salt is heavier than the flour and if you put it on the bottom it is going to sink all the flour will go to the bottom. You have to make an even distribution and that is why I recommend using your hand for this or a spatula and also I like getting my hand dirty with flour. We are going to do a twisting motion where we grab hold of it and sift it out like this as we turn the bowl. This will help for even distribution. You want to make sure that you get all the way to the bottom too which I am doing right now. You will notice when you come across the salt you will feel it especially when you are using sea salt like I am. You can also grab a hold of it like I am and just squeeze. We are also trying to break up the flour. We do not want to use sifted flour because it will be too light and too airy and it will not measure out as well. We want to make sure that we do it to the flour and that there are no lumps. That is pretty well mixed up I think, it feels like it, and it is even in texture. It is a nice fluffly texture and not so packed down like it was in our cup. Our flour and our salt have been mixed so let's move on to the next step.