Préfou - Garlic bread

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    3hrs 35mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    369
based on 5 ratings

The préfou, which means pre-oven (pre-four - before oven), is an un-proofed bread that used to be put in the oven to evaluate the temperature of the traditional wood-fired oven at a time when there was no thermometer to support high temperatures. This bread was very flat and couldn't be sold as it was really not presentable. It was therefore thrown away or given to animals. In the Vendée region, bakers didn't throw it away: they spread it with garlic and butter and ate it themselves. Nowadays, many variants can be made: with chorizo, sundried tomatoes, goat cheese or roquefort with walnuts. Our version will be using garlic butter. Serve as a starter or side dish.

recipe updated Jun 2, 2023

Ingredients

  • Salted butter icon
    Salted butter
    150 g
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    6
  • Water icon
    Water
    300 g
  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    2
  • Black pepper icon
    Black pepper
    as needed
  • Dried yeast icon
    Dried yeast
    7 g
  • Bread flour icon
    Bread flour
    500 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    1 ½ teaspoons

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Kenwood Chef
  • kCook icon Baking tray - large
  • kCook icon Kenwood bowl - kenwood chef
  • kCook icon Medium bowl
  • kCook icon Lightly floured surface
  • kCook icon Cutting board

Step preview

  1. Flour a clean baking tray
  2. Attach K Beater
  3. Add salted butter, garlic clove and black pepper to the Kenwood Bowl
  4. Mix with splashguard fitted until light and fluffy - 1 min, Speed Max
  5. Transfer butter to medium bowl then set aside
  6. Clean Kenwood Bowl
  7. Attach Dough Hook
  8. Add water and dried yeast to the Kenwood Bowl
  9. Let rest until dissolved - 10 min
  10. Add bread flour, garlic clove and salt to the Kenwood Bowl
  11. Mix with splashguard fitted until dough forms - 10 min, Speed 1
  12. Remove the Kenwood Bowl from the machine
  13. Cover with kitchen towel
  14. Prove until doubled - 1 hr 30 min
  15. Transfer dough to lightly floured surface
  16. Flatten the dough carefully with your wrist
  17. Gently pull the edges into the centre
  18. Roll over
  19. Shape into a log
  20. Transfer shaped dough to baking tray
  21. Cover with kitchen towel
  22. Prove until doubled - 1 hr
  23. Pre-heat oven - 220°C
  24. Place a tray of water into the bottom of the oven
  25. Spray the dough with salted water
  26. Bake then reduce heat - 10 min, 220°C
  27. Bake until hollow-sounding when tapped - 30 min, 180°C
  28. Remove from oven
  29. Turn out onto cooling rack and let cool
  30. Pre-heat oven - 180°C
  31. Transfer bread to cutting board
  32. Cut lengthwise
  33. Add butter to bread
  34. Wrap with foil
  35. Bake - 5 min, 180°C
  36. Remove from oven and let cool
  37. Serve
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