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Parbaking is a cooking technique in which a bread or dough product is partially baked and then rapidly frozen for storage. [1] The raw dough is baked normally, but halted at about 80% of the normal cooking time, when it is rapidly cooled and frozen. The partial cooking kills the yeast in the bread mixture, and sets the internal structure of the ...
The history of pizza begins in antiquity, as various ancient cultures produced flatbreads with several toppings. Pizza today is an Italian dish with a flat dough-based base and toppings, with significant Italian roots in History. A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flatbread known to the Romans as panis focacius, to which toppings ...
Sponge and dough. The sponge and dough method is a two-step bread making process: in the first step a sponge is made and allowed to ferment for a period of time, and in the second step the sponge is added to the final dough's ingredients, [1] creating the total formula. [2] In this usage, synonyms for sponge are yeast starter or yeast pre ...
List of French breads. Baguette. Fougasse. Brioche. Pain de campagne. This is a list of notable French breads, consisting of breads that originated in France. Baguette – a long, thin type of bread of French origin. [1][2] The "baguette de tradition française" is made from wheat flour, water, yeast, and common salt.
The French Chef Cookbook, Simca's Cuisine. Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French cookbook written by Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, both from France, and Julia Child, from the United States. [1] The book was written for the American market and published by Knopf in 1961 (Volume 1) and 1970 (Volume 2).
Pain de campagne. Pain de campagne ("country bread" in French), also called "French sourdough", [1] is typically a large round loaf (" miche ") made from either natural leavening or baker's yeast. Most traditional versions of this bread are made with a combination of white flour with whole wheat flour and/or rye flour, water, leavening and salt.
Pissaladière (UK: / ˌ p ɪ s æ l æ d ˈ j ɛər /, US: / ˌ p iː s ɑː l ɑː d ˈ j ɛər /, [1] [2] French: [pisaladjɛʁ]; Niçard: pissaladiera [pisalaˈdjeɾɔ] or pissaladina [pisalaˈdinɔ]; Ligurian: piscialandrea [piʃalaŋˈdɾeːa] or sardenaira) is a dish of flatbread with toppings from the region of Provence [3] and the French city of Nice.
Boule, from French, meaning "ball", is a traditional shape of French bread resembling a squashed ball. A boule can be made using any type of flour and can be leavened with commercial yeast, chemical leavening, or even wild yeast (sourdough). The name of this rustic loaf shape is the reason the French call bread bakers "boulangers" and bread ...