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Franche-Comté sticks

Thin baguettes made with Morteau sausage and cancoillotte cheese. The cancoillotte is added in the form of crumbled metton curds (normally melted in milk to make the creamy cancoillotte). Sliced thinly, these sticks make an ideal aperitif snack for sharing with friends.

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Last modified on: October 24^th 2017

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For 8 Frenchs sticks, you will need:

1 200 g Morteau sausage
2 500 g flour
3 250 g water
4 250 g leaven
5 9 g salt
6 4 g yeast
7 200 g metton cancoillotte
Total weight: 1,413 grams

Change these quantities to make: 4 Frenchs sticks 8 Frenchs sticks 16 Frenchs sticks 24 Frenchs sticks

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Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
32 min.	4 hours	55 min.	5 hours 27 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 40 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

Boil the Morteau sausage using as little water as possible. For once, prick with a fork or knife point to add flavour to the cooking water.

Leave to cook then remove the sausage and save 250 g water for making the bread dough.

Stage 2

Franche-Comté sticks

In bread-making, the water temperature is always important. It's not a fixed value, but related to 3 other temperatures: 1) the temperature of your flour, 2) the room temperature in your kitchen, and 3) the basic temperature of this recipe, which is 58-64°C.

You can calculate the temperature of the water for this recipe in one click, using this small calculator.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

Put into a food processor bowl: 500 g flour, 250 g water at the correct temperature, 250 g leaven,9 g salt and 4 g yeast.

Knead on the slowest speed for 10 minutes, then on the next speed for 3 minutes.

Note: For the best way to knead, see: A few tips for effective kneading at home.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

Cut 200 g Morteau sausage into small dice.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

Add the diced sausage and 200 g metton cancoillotte to the dough mixture.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

Knead for a few more minutes until well mixed.

Stage 7 - 2 hours

Franche-Comté sticks

Gather the dough into a ball, put into a clean bowl and cover with a sheet of plastic. Leave to rest for 2 hours.

Stage 8 - 30 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

After this time, cut the dough into 8 pieces of the same weight and roll these into balls.

Cover these with a sheet of plastic and leave to rest for 30 minutes.

Stage 9 - 1 hour 30 min.

Then shape the balls into sticks ('ficelles' in French), as shown in this video.

As you finish them, lay them on a baking sheet. Cover with a sheet of plastic and leave to rest for 1 hour 30 minutes.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

Preheat the oven to 240°C (460°F).

'Slash' the tops of the sticks...

Stage 11 - 15 min.

Franche-Comté sticks

...and bake for around 15 minutes.

Note: As when baking any bread, you should ensure that the oven is filled with steam for the first 15 minutes of baking. This page shows you how; it really is the secret of golden-brown, crusty loaves..

Stage 12

Franche-Comté sticks

Serve in slices.

Remarks

It is not essential to use the water from cooking the sausage to make the bread dough, but it adds flavour.

If you don't have Morteau sausage, you can use another smoked sausage. If you cannot get cancoillotte metton, you can use grated cheese.

And to drink?

A dry white wine, such as a Jura, Savigin or Chardonnay, or a light red, such as a Poulsard.

Keeping

A few days in a cloth bag.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,015 Kcal or 12,623 Kj	139 gr	706 gr	81 gr
151 %	53 %	67 %	12 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
213 Kcal or 892 Kj	10 gr	50 gr	6 gr
11 %	4 %	5 %	1 %

Per French sticks
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
377 Kcal or 1,578 Kj	17 gr	88 gr	10 gr
19 %	7 %	8 %	2 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk

How much will it cost?

For 8 Frenchs sticks : 3.98 €
Per French sticks : 0.50 €

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Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Nantes Tourton, Diamond biscuits, Chocolate rolls (petits pains), Spinach and Comté Loaf, Chilli potato wedges, ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mint and chocolate cream, Quince and apple compote, Seeded loaf, Mojito peaches, Panettone, ... All
	Leaven: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Ocean bread, Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), Pizza dough, Mouna, Seeded loaf, ... All
	Metton cancoillotte: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Morteau sausage rolled brioche, ... All

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