Beginner's Guide To Sourdough Focaccia Bread
Emilie Raffa · theclevercarrot.com · 2022 · Original
Focacciainferred from the title
DietVegetarian. Not vegan: honey.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Focaccia style, 44% hydration: drier than 97% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 425°F, hotter than 35% of recipes that state an oven.
Focaccia (Italy (generic)): plain focaccia bread with no regional claim: high hydration, oiled sheet pan, dimpled, salt and rosemary; a bread, not a pizza
Tradition: 70 to 85% hydration (this recipe: 44%) · 425 to 475°F bake (this recipe: 425°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
850g
Water
375g
Hydration
44.1%
Salt
1.1%
Yeast
8.82%
Oil
0%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
n/a
Dough weight
1356g
Process
Bake temp
425°F / 218°C
Bake time
25 to 30 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (9)
- yeast50-75 g bubbly75g
- waterwater375g
- sugarhoney20g
- flourbread flour or all purpose flour500g
- saltfine sea salt9g
- oil2-3 tbsp olive oil2 tbsp · 27.2g
- saltAssorted Toppings : rosemaryn/a
- flourThoughts on Flour: You can use bread flour or all purpose flour to make sourdough focaccia. Comparatively speaking350g
- yeastThoughts on Sourdough Starter : When the weather is coldn/a
Toppings (1)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheeseFor Baking: You will need a rimmed sheet pan or non-stick rectangular pan
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- Scale this doughStart from 44% hydration and 1.1% salt, then set your own flour weight and ball count.
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- See what hydration doesWhere 44% sits, and what changes as it goes up or down.
- Where it sits among the restEvery dough plotted by its numbers, with the Focaccia group marked.
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