Easy French Bread using Vegetable Stock

Thank you for watching this video on my veggie loaf! As mentioned in the video, we are making a dough using "old dough" or fermented dough. This type of preferment helps aid in flavor and shelf life. It also helps shorten the length the dough needs to proof.
If you're making bread (or pizza) a day or two before, just set aside 200g of the dough and hold it in the refrigerator for the next day when you're making this bread. If you don't have old dough laying around, then the night before mix together
100g water
161g Bread Flour
3.8g Salt
1.2g Yeast
after mixing this dough, proof for one hour and then punch down and shape into a ball and store in the fridge until the next day when you're ready to make your final dough.
It's good to use room temperature veggie stock when making the final dough or even slightly warmer due to this cold dough you'll be adding to the final dough.
As mentioned in the video, this is a great starter bread! It is a stiff dough and easy to work with.
Let me know if you have any questions.
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[@annettemitchell2485]

Hi Nicole, wow my bread journey interrupted my macaron journey and I’m enjoying my bread journey a little too much (I’m a carbohydrate addict and packing on the pounds..lol). I love the idea of using vegetable stock. I was wondering, I make a Neapolitan pizza dough using 00 flour, my recipe yields 6 dough balls but because it’s normally just my husband and I, I freeze 4 to 5 of them. Could I thaw one of those out and allow it to sit in the fridge for a day or two and use that for my old dough? They’re made with a poolish.

[@baketoujours]

Yes you could definitely use those! I’m so sorry I didn’t see this earlier Annette!

[@delskinner3427]

Hey, Nicole, how do you get the old dough? Was it from a previous dough with the same recipe or from your sour dough bread?

[@baketoujours]

Hi! I wrote it out in the description of this video! Let me know if you have issues finding it. ❤

[@baketoujours]

To specify it can really be any old dough, so you don’t have to worry too much about hydration/recipe. But I haven’t used sourdough old dough. I’ll have to try that now that I’m making it!