"four cups of flour and 1/4 cup of water does not give you nice and elastic dough. haha i just used a different recipe but followed the instructions and my baguette came out awesome =D

1 cup of water
2 and 1/2 cups of all purpose flower
1 tbsp of sugar
1 tsp of salt
1 and 1/2 tsp of yeast

4 proof-periods and 9.5 hrs later bam. delicious bread =D hahaha if you have the time for it try it out but honestly not a weekly thing that i plan on doing.