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Le Pain d'Aix

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Slideslinger

Le Pain d'Aix

 Saw this made in one of those French bakery videos and thought, wait a minute, even I can do that!! I made a relatively small batch of baguette dough and voila!!

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Benito

Those are great Sturgis, it never ceases to amaze me at the variety of breads out there in our world that I’ve never seen or heard of.

Benny

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Floydm

Cute!

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Dan_In_Sydney

I'm not the only one, right?

Galaga

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Kistida

Really cute and I bet tasty bread! :)

-Christi

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Slideslinger

Yep - super tasty!! Nothing tastes better than freshly baked baguettes, IMNSHO, and that's all these are, in a more portable package.

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Slideslinger
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idaveindy

when they put two triangles of soft, billowy, puffy dough together, they were probably thinking along the lines of

https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/aeo/0752_1883_331_d1?$PDP_78_Main$

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And how many of us geeks also thought of the AIX operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX ?

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Slideslinger

Right on Dave!! When they came out of the oven my wife said they reminded her of Corgis butts, so touche!

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TucsonPZP

These are amazing! Any place I get see instructions/demo of how the shaping was done? You are awesome!!

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idaveindy

Paulette,  Welcome to TFL !

Youtube knows everything:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shape+pain+d%27aix

1st three hits.

Bon appétit !

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TucsonPZP

Duh! Why didn't I think of that? I certainly look up every other thing on YT. LOL, LOL!! Thanks so much.

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Slideslinger

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oysxGmZET8
huiler légèrement: means coat lightly with oil. I used olive oil.