Application Guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- America’s New Bread Box
- Orientation
- Batterie de Cuisine: Know Your Bread Machine
- Making Bread
- Daily Breads: White Breads and Egg Breads
- White Breads
- Egg Breads
- One-Pound Loaves
- Pasta Doughs from Your Bread Machine
- Earth’s Bounty: Whole Wheat, Whole-Grain, and Specialty Flour Breads
- Whole Wheat Breads
- Rye Breads
- Specialty Flour Breads
- Multigrain Breads
- Gluten-Free Breads
- Traditional Loaves: Country Breads and Sourdough Breads
- Country Breads
- Sourdough Breads
- All Kinds of Flavors: Breads Made with the Produce of the Garden, Orchard, and Creamery
- Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads
- Savory Vegetable and Fruit Breads
- Cheese Breads
- Mixes and Some Special Breads Created from Them
- Stuffing Breads
- Circle, Squares, and Crescents: Pizzas and Other Flatbreads
- Sweet Loaves: Chocolate, Fruit, and Other Sweet Breads
- Breakfast Breads
- Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls
- Chocolate Breads
- Holiday Breads
- Express Lane Bread: No-Yeast Quick Breads
- Jams, Preserves, and Chutneys in Your Bread Machine
- Appendix 1 Bits and Pieces: Crumbs, Croutons, Crostini, and Toasted Appetizers
- Appendix 2 To Eat with Your Bread: Spreads, Butters, Cheeses, and Vegetables
- Appendix 3 Resources
- General Index
- Recipe Index
SCHIACCIATA Makes one 14-inch flatbread
The Italian schiacciata (pronounced ski-ah-CHAH-tah) is a Tuscan flatbread known in
other areas of Italy as a focaccia. It is known as the bakers’ hors d’oeuvre and is a su-
perb appetizer just as it is here, plain, served with wine. Toppings you might wish to
try are a thin layer of tomato sauce sprinkled with chopped scallions and some Parme-
san cheese, or a drizzle of thin basil pesto with pine nuts. This flatbread is made with a
biga, or starter; for more information on bigas, see the Country Breads section of the
Traditional Loaves chapter.
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1
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2
- OR 2-POUND-LOAF MACHINES
For the biga:
1
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2
cup water
1 cup bread flour
1
/
2
teaspoon SAF yeast or bread machine yeast
For the dough:
1 cup water
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
2
1
/
2
cups bread flour
1 teaspoon sea salt
1
1
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4
teaspoons SAF yeast
or 1
3
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4
teaspoons bread machine yeast
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
Coarse sea salt, for sprinkling
To make the starter, place the biga ingredients in the bread pan. Program for the
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