(no subject)

[darcydodo]

Will post about Versailles soon, but for now I'm going to sleep. It's taking too long to write the entry, and I'm exhausted.

Comments

Do you remember your focaccia recipe?

[sschmitt.livejournal.com]

I'm having a dinner next week, and would love to cook it for people. Can you remember it off the top of your head? It is so yummy!

France is sounding like lots o' fun. Bring back as much wine as you can!

Re: Do you remember your focaccia recipe?

[darcydodo]

I guess I might as well post the recipe here. Anyone's welcome to claim it. :) It's originally from Suzanne Dunaway's No Need to Knead, though delivered in my own words. Just to give credit where credit's due.

Darcy's by-now-famous focaccia

2 cups lukewarm water
2 tsp yeast (= 1 pkg or .25g) [NOT rapid rise!!!]
2-3 tsp salt
4 cups flour
olive oil
rosemary
sea salt

Dissolve yeast in water, in a large-ish bowl. Add 2 cups of the flour and the salt. Stir until no longer lumpy. Add remaining flour; stir again until smooth. Will take about 2 or 3 minutes per flour session, I'd say.

Cover bowl tightly with saran wrap, clingfilm, whatever you want to call it. Set aside to rise for 45 minutes.

Preheat oven to 500° F. (Do this before the dough is risen.)

Oil a baking sheet; you'll be happier if the sheet is non-stick. Turn the dough onto the sheet. Rub some oil on the surface. Stick your index and middle finger of each hand into the dough and use them to pull the dough in different directions, spreading it across the baking sheet. Make it fairly thin, about 3/4" or something. The holes from your fingers can go all the way through.

Sprinkle rosemary and sea salt on the surface. Put bread in oven and reduce oven temperature to 450° F. Let cook until golden brown; can be anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes depending on your oven. 25 is sort of normal.

Remove from oven and tray and let cool on a rack.

Good luck, and I think I haven't forgotten anything. :)

Re: Do you remember your focaccia recipe?

[sschmitt.livejournal.com]

Thanks Darcy! We will toast to you on July 4th!

Re: Do you remember your focaccia recipe?

[darcydodo]

Glad to hear this, 'cause I'm not going to be anywhere at all firework-y or even patriotic. *sniffle* I guess we'll just have to find strawberry shortcake in Saint Lambert des Levées (which I think is in the Loire Valley).

Re: Do you remember your focaccia recipe?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. I remember your focaccia. Will have to make it, now I have the recipe.

Are you sure you mean 0.25g?

Re: Do you remember your focaccia recipe?

[darcydodo]

No, not sure. Could've been ounces. :) But I'm positive about the other two measurements!