Beth Hensperger

Walnut Fougasse

Preparation info
  • Makes

    one

    12 inch flatbread
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

In the south of France a focaccia-style flatbread is called a fougasse. This version is adapted from a recipe by baker Rose Levy Beranbaum, who was introduced to this bread by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse restaurant fame. It is a picnic bread or appetizer par excellence.

Ingredients

1½- or 2-pound-loaf machines

  • 1¼ cups fat-free milk
  • ⅓ cup walnut oil

Method

  1. Place all the ingredients in the pan according to the order in the manufacturer’s instructions. Program for the Dough cycle; press Start.
  2. Brush a 12-inch round pizza pan with 1 tablespoon of the walnut oil. When the machine beeps at the end of the cycle, press Stop and unplug the machine. Immediately remove the bread pan and turn the dough out directly onto the