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• Focaccia Bread is a flat Italian bread traditionally flavored with olive oil and salt and often topped with herbs, cheeses, meats, and vegetables .

  Focaccia dough is similar to pizza dough, both containing flour, water, oil, sugar, salt, and yeast.

• Fast Facts

  1. Origin: Ancient Greeks or Etruscans
  2. Sizes: large, flat loaves, small sandwich size loaves
  3. Derived from the Latin for "fireplace"
  4. Used as a sandwich bread or a base for pizza
  5. Called fougasse in France, fugazza in Argentina and hogaza in Spain

• Making the Bread

  Once the dough is made, it is rolled out into a thick layer and baked in a hearth oven. The bread is typically punctured with a knife to relieve bubbling on the surface. It is also poked with fingers or a utensil to make small valleys so that olive oil can poured over it before baking. This process helps preserve the moisture.

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