Pillsbury^®Crusty French Loaf FAQs

For best quality, use refrigerated dough before the “use-by” date on the package.

It's best stored on a shelf in the fridge. Temperatures in the refrigerator’s door shelves or crisper are probably too warm or cold. Make sure you keep dough refrigerated until just before you're ready to bake. Warm dough can be sticky and hard to work with.

You should throw out any packages of breadstick dough left at room temperature for more than two hours.

When you open the can of dough, it activates the leavening that causes the dough to rise. After you open the can, you can cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate it for up to two hours before baking. After two hours, the dough will begin to deteriorate.

Nope, that could prevent it from rising once it is baked.

Absolutely! For best results, use within one month after freezing.

Nope, the uneven heat of a microwave keeps the dough from browning and baking through.

We don't recommend it. A toaster oven’s small size often makes the dough heat unevenly unenly, plus it could burn.

Yep, preheat the oven for 10 minutes before baking. This will help prevent the product from baking unevenly.

It's so simple:

• Place the bread dough, seam side down, on a sprayed or greased cookie sheet.
• With a sharp knife, cut four or five diagonal slashes on top of the dough – about a ½ inch deep.
• Mix one tablespoon melted butter and ¼ teaspoon garlic salt in small bowl, and brush it over the dough.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 26 to 30 minutes or until it's deep golden brown.
• Remove it from the cookie sheet and cool for about five minutes. Then slice it with a serrated knife.

We've got you covered here, too:

• Place the bread dough, seam side down, on a sprayed or greased cookie sheet.
• Slash the top of the dough as directed on the package.
• Mix two tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese and ½ teaspoon dried Italian seasoning, crushed, in small bowl.
• Brush the top of the loaf with one tablespoon olive oil; then sprinkle with the cheese mixture.
• Bake it at 350 degrees F for 28 to 33 minutes or until golden brown.

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