Easy family baguette recipe, 4 ingredients

| March 10, 2025 | Bred | No Comments

Start by gathering the basic ingredients.


I usually keep flour, yeast and salt in my pantry at any time.

Steven John

My family’s recipe mainly uses things I have already in my pantry regularly.

For two baguettes, you will need:

5 cups (generous) versatile flour

5 teaspoons of active yeast

1 teaspoon of salt

2 cups of lukewarm water

(Optional) 1 egg + ¼ cup of water for egg washing

For equipment, I like to use a drummer on a base with a bread bread accessory, a large bowl and a cookie plate.

Mix the dry ingredients.


hand pouring a teaspoon of yeast into a bowl of flowers

I start with two cups of flour and add the rest later.

Steven John

Mix two cups of flour with the yeast and salt in a drummer on a base, turning it briefly to stir the dry ingredients together.

Form a basic paste and gradually add all the flour.


bread dough in a kitchen stand mixer

As I use a stand mixer with a bread hook, I do not end up having to knead the dough.

Steven John

Pouring two cups of lukewarm water – about 110 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal – in the stand mixer and switch it to a minute to form a sticky basic paste.

Add the three cups of flour remaining to the mixer and operate it at low speed for about five minutes. A thigh and thicker and semi-semi-semi-semi-semi-semal dough ball should form.

Then remove the mixer’s dough, form it in a ball and place it in a greased bowl. I recommend using olive oil.

Let the dough rest for about an hour.


bowl covered with a kitchen sitting on the floor next to a heating vent

The dough rises better in a warm place.

Steven John

Cover the bowl with plastic film and a cloth and place it in a warm place for an hour.

I usually put my dough near a floor heating vent, but places like a cupboard with water heater or even a hot bathroom also work well.

If you let your dough get up in the bathroom, make sure the bowl has an airtight seal.

The dough should increase a little.


bread bread raised in a large bowl to mix

You can press the dough with your fingers to release excess air.

Steven John

When the dough has doubled, press the excess air with clean hands and roll it in two balls. Put them aside when you prepare a cookie plate with parchment paper and flour sprinkling.

You will also want to prepare for a dry and smooth workspace on your counter with a dust of heavy flour.

Flatten the dough balls and roll them in long batons.


Roll by hand a sheet of flattened bread dough

I roll the dough in large oval before shaping the bread.

Steven John

Using a rolling pin, roll the dough balls in flat and roughly ovular shapes – about 16 by 12 inches of large and no more than ¼ inch thick.

From one of the longest edges, roll the flattened dough in a long tube and pinch the ends.

Reduce the resurrected dough for appearance and texture.


knife cutting in a resurrected baguette dough

I like to make about 10 slices on top of the dough.

Steven John

Once the 20 minutes have passed and the tubes have increased slightly, remove the plastic and reduce the dough diagonally about 10 times with a serrated knife.

This is partly for looks, but it also encourages bread to develop during cooking.

Bake, wash the eggs again and rotate the pan in the oven.


Two baguettes partially cooked on a cookie plate

I make sure to turn the pan in the oven to cook the bread evenly.

Steven John

Cook the bread for 20 minutes, make another washing of eggs and turn the dough in the oven with the turned pan – if you do not use egg washing, simply rotate the pan so that all the sides of the cooked dough uniformly.

Cook for another 15 minutes.