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Joined: September 21st, 2012


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February 3rd, 2024

Rustic Italian loaf from Canadian living breads and pizzas

This has a very wet dough and due to this I use the bread machine on the dough cycle, stopping the cycle just before it kneads the dough down. After this it’s fairly easy (use lots of flour on work surface)... read more >


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Pizza, Focaccia, Flat and Filled Breads For Your Bread Machine: Perfect Every Time

By Lora Brody
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1995

9th November 2022 (edited: 10th November 2022)

Focaccia with greens : page 90

I made a hybrid of this recipe with the stuffed rosemary focaccia and it made an absolutely delicious stuffed bread. I halved everything to make one 7” bread in a springform pan. I used the rosemary focaccia dough…started with 1/2 cup red fife flour and 1 cup all purpose. This dough needed extra flour to come together. I made the filling with greens from the garden with olives, garlic, and raisins, and threw in a few roasted cherry tomatoes for sharpness. Baked as directed for the dough recipe (20 min at 450 fan) then 3 minutes out of the tin. This bread would be great for company. Rating this as 5 stars despite having to add flour since it tasted so good, and the dough was lovely to work with. An excellent bread that I will definitely make again

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13th November 2022

Rosemary mustard focaccia : page 74

Very good. I ran out of mustard and used 1 cup of spelt flour so had to add a bit more water to compensate. I reduced the salt to 1.5 tsp and used fresh rosemary from the garden. Baked 425 fan 20 min then removed pan for 2 additional minutes.

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