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Focaccia: Simple Breads from the Italian Oven [Paperback]

Carol Field , Joyce Oudkerk Pool
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  • Paperback: 117 pages
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books (1 Dec 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0811806049
  • ISBN-13: 978-0811806046
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 20.1 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 690,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Fragrant with olive oil, sea salt, and herbs from the hillsides, focaccia is the delicious northern Italian flatbread that is fast becoming as popular in this country as pizza. Over 50 recipes for savory and sweet versions offer enticing proof that focaccia is one of the easiest-to-prepare and most versatile of all homemade breads. Written by an acclaimed expert on Italian baking and illustrated with glowing full-color photographs, this inviting cookbook provides the key to making simple, flavorful focaccia a staple of all your meals.

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Focaccia begins with the most basic ingredients-flour, water, yeast, salt, sometimes a little olive oil-but it is much simpler to make than most other breads if you pay attention to a few uncomplicated rules. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Plenty of wonderful ideas for focaccia toppings, 18 Jun 2009
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Catfish "Ania" (Exeter, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Focaccia: Simple Breads from the Italian Oven (Paperback)
This is a lovely book for anyone who enjoys Italian food, and Italian breads in particular. I like baking my own bread, both straight-dough and sourdough methods, and have made some lovely focaccia bases in the past using recipes from Bread by Ursula Ferrigno or Local Breads by Dan Leader. And although the focaccia bases from those two books were really tasty and beautifully risen, neither of them gave more than 2 or 3 suggestions for toppings for focaccia. I therefore decided to buy Focaccia by Carol Field, hoping for loads of topping suggestions, and was certainly not disappointed... in fact, far from it - this book is a little gem!

The book contains 4 basic focaccia doughs: basic white focaccia, wholewheat focaccia, focaccia with a starter that should be prepared 6 - 24 hours in advance, and my favourite, focaccia from Genoa: the dough includes white wine which does something marvellous to the taste and texture, and it rises beautifully when you bake it.
And then there are the various recipes for focaccia toppings: 31 recipes for Savory Focaccia, 6 for Filled Focaccia, and 10 for Sweet Focaccia. The Savory Focaccia section is my favourite and includes, amongst others:
- basil - topped focaccia
- focaccia with rosemary, oil and salt
- focaccia with fresh sage
- focaccia with garlic and herbs
- focaccia with caramelised onions
- focaccia with sweet peppers
- focaccia with slivers of potato and rosemary
And the absolutely heavenly gorgonzola, red onion and walnut focaccia. These are the ones I have tried, and all have been so delicious that they disappear in one evening despite baking a double batch to last at least 2 days. I can't wait to try all the rest of the recipes now, especially as the ones I made before all were so great.

So if you're looking for some inspirational toppings for focaccia, look no further than this one. And apart from the recipes there are various photographs dispersed throughout the book of herbs, olive oil bottles, tables laid with focaccia and Italian wine... beautiful.

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Amazon.com: 4.9 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, 12 April 2000
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This review is from: Focaccia: Simple Breads from the Italian Oven (Paperback)
The variety of recipes for this fun and tasty bread are astounding! It serves not only to provides one with foccaccia for any occasion, but it stimulates the imagination, helping one to create any recipe they need! I love it!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, 24 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Focaccia: Simple Breads from the Italian Oven (Paperback)
The book is full of good recipes, most of them easy to make. The results are consistently good. For an unusual bread, try the potato focaccia recipe. Everybody in my family loves it, and it became one of the favorite lunches to take to work/school.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book, 30 April 2003
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This review is from: Focaccia: Simple Breads from the Italian Oven (Paperback)
Focaccia is my favourite bread, and since I live in Italy I get to eat it as much as I want. But I wanted to try making it on my own, and this book really helped me.
The recipes here are amazing and they really work. They are easy and tasty (they do taste better than the ones I buy at my local bakery). Also the variety is great. The one I like the best is "Focaccia Andrea Doria" but they are all excellent. The book is also filled with beautiful photos. Enjoy it.
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