Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

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Use these for the bread crumbs in Tomatoes à la Provençale. If you start with a small (roughly 1¼-pound / 455 g) country loaf of levain, or sourdough, the torn soft insides will toast up into about 3 cups (115 g) of toasty bread crumbs.

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Cut a small country loaf in half and use your hands to tear the inside bread into tiny pieces—really about the size of peas. Save the outside to dry o