Perhaps I've been under a rock. Or maybe I'm just too cheap to buy artisan breads. Whatever the reason, I've actually never had a baguette! Can you believe it? I've looked at them before and assumed hard, tough...ya know... SO exactly what IS a baguette? Yours look delicious and I am going to try the recipe...but I was wondering what the "definition" of a baguette was! :) lol AWESOME blog! Hi LizAnn - not under a rock, just never in France - because it's basically France's national bread, their everyday, go-to loaf. Equivalent perhaps to our white sandwich bread? It's a simple flour-water-yeast-salt loaf - light-textured, with a crisp-crackly crust, in a long, wand-like shape. Hard to attain the bakery crust at home, as they use steam-injected ovens; but you can make a pretty good equivalent. And yes, baguettes can have a very hard (not tough, hard, as in tap-tap-tap) crust; but that's their signature. Good luck, and enjoy - PJH

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