“When you make hearth breads, like sourdough hearth breads, you need a Dutch oven and a blade to score it. Focaccia is among the first breads he teaches his students because of how well it illustrates basic baking principles. Marchetti has been developing her sourdough focaccia recipe over the past four years, tweaking it each time she makes it in pursuit of flatbread perfection. The looseness of focaccia dough can present challenges for the uninitiated — it doesn’t strengthen the way a typical bread dough does. You need to have an iron fist and a velvet glove.”For kids, there may be no other baking task more rewarding than dimpling focaccia dough.

Source: National Post May 07, 2020 12:01 UTC