Thank you for watching! This episode was a little delayed because of technical issues with the footage, Ferragosto, and Gianfranco and I being sick this week with the flu. Hoping you will enjoy this slow-paced Italian cooking lesson, especially those of you learning Italian. Ingredients: 4g brewer’s yeast 1/2 teaspoon sugar 55g water approx 100g 0 flour (soft wheat) 300g semolina (durum wheat) 300g 0 flour (soft wheat) 400g water (+ 20g extra to dissolve salt) 3 teaspoons salt approx 30g olive oil *equal parts water and oil with 2 teaspoons salt for emulsion cherry tomatoes rosemary or oregano
I'm sick at the moment as well off work too up set tummy must be getting better I'm hungry now looks so delicious or should I say yummy for my tummy ❤ and doesn't look too hard to make but I doubt it turns out quite as good just have a feeling
I am a baker. I make bread, focaccia and pizza dough in an Italian owned pizzeria. We are more commercial baking but I love to see how much more hands on this is with the dough. I would love to be there right now with you ladies making this so fresh and with such natural ingredients. It's funny I do this all day and still can't get enough with watching it.
I bet, as a baker, you don't play with your hair when you're making bread or pastries.... do you. Maybe you can explain to Ms Flavell why we don't play with our hair around food.
This is a MASTERPIECE ... what a wonderful baker, an Italian national treasure .... I could almost smell the aromas, the rhyme and artful connection with ingredients are a pure joy to watch. Both of you should open a bakery 🙏🙏
Thank you so much for having Marzia show us bread lovers how to make a great Italian focaccia! Absolutely lovely demonstration -- I even learned some beautiful Italian while watching and listening to you two speak! ❤🥰
Oh Kylie, I was drooling by the end of that. It was great to hear the 'crunch' as you ate it and clearly you and Guido were both in focaccia heaven. I loved the way you had laid out the table as well; you have such an eye for making everything beautiful and for all the Italian. Do hope you are feeling better now and thank you again for another fabulous video. I am sure Marzia enjoyed your baking too!
I think Guido hit the proverbial "nail on the head" about bread being made with little yeast.....not blowing up in your stomach!!!...I live in the United States and can't eat bread and other grains, due to asthma.....it looks sooo delicious!!!.....and the sound.....heavenly!!!....love how Italians feel about simple ingredients, bit always the best, and or freshest!!!....wish I could have a bite.....can smell it from here.....thank your neighbor for her time and effort, but most of all her love of bread making!!!....
As a Canadian wheat farmer, it is exciting to se Manitoba wheat being sold as flour in Italy!!! We grow hard red spring wheat,which is high in protein,(gluten), and especially good for bread.
Kylie Please do more cooking and baking shows with this wonderful friend. You two work so well together and a compliment to each other. Thanks for sharing. Maybe special holidays in Tuscany like Christmas.
My son and I wanted to make some bread during his visit from Australia (I live in the south of France). Our starter was not cooperating so we tried Marzia's focaccia recipe instead. It turned out great! The pre-ferment really helped with the flavor, structure, and color and the salted water oil was a good tip. I sorted out the instructions and sent them to him to try when he returned home. As Marzia said, you can use what you have on hand as long as the protein content of the flours are the same. (Semolina has 13g and Italian 0 has about 10g protein). Here is the recipe I sent. Italian Focaccia (with pre-ferment and 70% hydration) Ingredients For pre-ferment: •4g fresh brewer’s yeast (2-3g dried yeast, not instant rise) •1/2 teaspoon sugar (2.6g granulated white or raw) •55g water (warm room temp) •100g 0 Manitoba (14g protein) flour For dough: •300g semolina (durum wheat, 13g protein) •300g 0 flour (soft wheat, 10-11g protein) •400g water (+ 20g extra to dissolve salt) •3 teaspoons salt •approx 30g olive oil For salt/oil wash: •equal parts water and oil with (guessing 6 tablespoons of each). •2 teaspoons salt (11g) cherry tomatoes rosemary or oregano Steps Make pre-ferment: In a bowl add yeast and sugar mix well with water. Add flour until dough just loses stickiness and can be kneaded and formed into a ball. Cut cross into dough ball. Cover and let rise for 30 to 40 minutes until doubled (it will spread and soften). In colder months you can aid the rise by placing in an oven or microwave with the light on (26-27C, 78-80F). Make dough: Add 300g finely milled semolina or bread flour and 300g soft wheat flour (10g protein) to the pre-ferment and knead them together in the bowl until well blended. (you can choose to add an additional 2-3g dried yeast if you want a quicker proof in cooler weather). Measure 420g warm room temp water and begin by adding 300 g to the flour. Mix by hand. Add the rest of the water reserving 20g to dissolve the salt. Add the salted water. Mix the very wet dough by hand until it starts to come together. Then knead in the bowl by pulling the dough toward the center for 2 minutes. Add 20-30g of oil and knead into very wet dough for 5 minutes (stretch and folds). Every 20-30 minutes repeat the kneading process. Do this three times until the dough is very elastic when stretched and doesn't break when pulled. When it's smooth and comes away from the bottom you can stop this process. Cover tightly and let rise in warm place for 1 hour. The dough should be soft and light and full of bubbles. Shaping and Rise: You can divide dough in half then into 10 parts to make 10 focaccine. Pinch cut end under and roll on counter or board until smooth. Place on parchment lined sheet pan 3 inches apart. Cover with tea towel and let rise for 1 hour. (If your oven is smaller use two sheets). The other half can be shaped into a round boule and placed into a parchment lined round or square cake pan. You can cut 15 pear, grape or cherry tomatoes in half and press into dough cut side up. Cover and let rise 1 hour. You can make a sheet pan of focaccia buy picking up all of the dough and letting it hang and stretch until it is a rectangle. Place in an oiled or parchment lined full sheet pan. Gently push from the middle to the outside rim of pan. If it springs back don't fret, just get it close and it will rest and soften during the rise. Finishing: Dissolve the salt into the water, then add the oil. Press dimples into the focaccine and brush with salt/water wash. Sprinkle with oregano or finely chopped rosemary. Brush top of cake pan focaccia with salt/water wash. Sprinkle with oregano. Press dimples into the focaccia and brush with salt/water wash. Sprinkle with oregano or finely chopped rosemary. Baking: Preheat oven to 220C, 425F (top bottom heat) for 1 hour. When you put in bread lower to 200C. Bake focaccine for 10-15 minutes. Bake Focaccia for 20-25 minutes, 10 minutes on the lower third and 10 minutes on the upper third. Remove to wire rack to cool. Notes: The pre-ferment gives the dough strength, structure, and taste. The Manitoba (14g protein) flour helps it develop gluten to support the large air bubbles. You can substitute another high protein flour (like strong bread flour) for the semolina (13g protein) and Manitoba (14g protein) flour. North American All-purpose flour is higher in protein (11.7g to 12g) than softer Italian 0 and 00, and French flour at 10g. Adjust accordingly to keep it light. Make sure you bake in a preheated oven. For a crisp bottom use lower third or place sheet pan on bread stone.
I have never enjoyed a video more!!! I was transported to the Tuscan countyside, you were making my favourite -simple homemade yeast bread, I could understand almost all the Italian...i felt immersed in an Italian experience...smells, tastes and sounds. Thank you,,,, to you and your friend...Grazie Mille!
Amazing episode as usually..beautiful, interesting lesson..Thank You both..pressing like button is not enough to express how much I loved the episode..❤❤❤❤
Marzia has this distinctive florentine accent which I adore! I was born north of Lucca, so I feel very much at home listening to her. Thanks for the video, because actually, I didn't know how focaccia was being made.
Good morning Kylie! This one was special for me. I have a bakery (with my husband), in a little town in Belgium. Your friend is right when it comes to home baking and professional baking. We are lucky to be still able to do things the old fashion way, with 60-70 years old machines (the ones sold today would never hold for such a long time). I still enjoy home baking even though I can eat bread every single day. Much love!
Ciao Kylie! I can't express how much I enjoyed this video! Loved watching Marzia make the dough and the conversation in Italian, which is my first language. It makes me miss my family in Italy even more. The focaccia looks so amazing! I will need to follow Marzia instruction and try it here. Thank you again for this beautiful video.
Everything looked divine and that cheesecake was beautiful and a lovely gift to your neighbour. How wonderful this baking was for all of us. Makes me hungry to watch.
OH MY GOD. I am going to watch this on repeat. I'm learning italian and I'm just going to keep listening to this over and over. This was incredible. Please open a cooking school
😍 wow Kylie, I loved this one❣️ so glad you recovered to files what a gem. I think the thing I love the most is the community spirit and paying cheesecake for bread, great trade, bravo bellissima ❤Michelle 🇦🇺
Yes, that’s what I love about living here too! There are always these little trades going on every week among the people who live around us. We offer our produce from the fruit trees and vegetable garden and the sheep farmer next door gives us free eggs. Then we deliver our compost to his chickens for their food. And so on and so on.
@@KylieFlavell we’re a bit the same in our little area on the Sunshine Coast hinterland, i bake cakes, cookies & sweet treats, the front neighbour makes preserves and the back neighbour does smoked meats and we look after each others 2 & 4 legged kids which is good for a fifo wife like me with 6 furkids. 😂
Oh my gosh, I don’t have words!! All of my senses are on overload! What a lovely lady Marzia is and what a treat to watch her make those yummy treats. I used to make my grandmother’s bread and cinnamon rolls from scratch and it truly is a labor of love. Thank you Kylie, that was beautiful!! Love from Mary in Southern California 💗
How fortunate to have such a talented neighbor! I could almost smell the bread and rosemary! It was a delight to hear her process in knowing when to add what. ♥️
Wonderful! It brings the Italian language to life and so helpful with the translation (it must've taken you ages to transcribe). What a fantastic film. She is an incredible lady. Thank you Kylie - so inspirational. The weather in England isn't quite as warm as Tuscany so the focaccia will take longer to rise. Much love to you all xx
YES! Subtitles take so long to translate and type out and then try to change the phrase to make it more concise so it’s not a long paragraph to read too quickly. 🤪👩🏼💻
Such crunch! Absolutely marvelous seeing everything slowly coming together. How blessed you are to have such a sweetheart for neighbor! Best of health, Kylie to you and Gianfranco.
This was so good! I was a Master Baker and Confectioner for 45 years including 17 years in higher education because I LOVED my trade and wanted to know the science behind the interaction of ingredients. Bread making above all else is a love, a passion, a science and a skill. I honour this lady, she knows her science and has such passion. Guido being sound 'crunch' enginneer was just PERFECT. 🤣💕 Thanks Kylie, this was ezpecially fabulous xxxc
Such a wonderful video Kylie and so worth the wait! This is the perfect sort of video for me from you: beautifully shot, informative and involves cooking! I also feel inspired to have a go myself! Grazie 🇮🇹❤
Wonderful timing I just made my focaccia dough, I like to ferment it for 12 hours in the refrigerator overnight. I’ll bake it tomorrow night. I’m taking it to a pool party on Saturday! It’s nice to see how an Italian baker makes her focaccia. Looks great😊
Excellent! I learned so many tips for improving my bread making. Thank you for inviting Marzia over! I'll now include focaccia in my agenda! I was shocked to hear about the USA protein flour! A surprise indeed. Blessings from Texas!
Ohhh my Goodness this was such and enjoyable video Kylie. The dough was beautiful and the finished product simple amazing to look at too. The joy you and Guido was lovely to see and that crunch something else. I could imagine how good it tasted. Loved hearing GianFranco squeal in the background and see his cute little legs and feet. The cheesecake was a nice thank you too. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful Italian friend while she showed all how to make the dough. Much love to you all. ❤❤❤❤❤
I enjoyed this episode so very much. Not just the Master Class-style instructional video but Guido’s pure enthusiasm and instinctive ASMR contributions, your joy at Focaccia consumption, and your dual parenting exclamation when Gianfranco joined in on the experience. We really felt like we were sitting at the table with your family.
JENNIFER YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL ADORABLE SEDUCTIVE RAVISHING SEXY CAPTIVATING AND PASSIONATE YOUR BEAUTY IS PHENOMENAL IF MICHELANGELO WERE ALIVE TODAY YOU WOULD BE HIS MUSE LET ME FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU MARCVOLPE ❤
What a delightful treat to see Marzia bake the focaccias and you helping her. She is so relaxed and has a poetic way of describing the ingredients and how nature grows the wild herbs. You truly have a wonderful neighbor and friend! You and Guido were in absolute heaven while you ate the bread. Believe it or not, I too could taste the bread.
Oh my gosh Kylie, this was so enjoyable to watch. I have to say, I don’t remember my mom taking quite as long to do her focaccia, but she also used our leftover mashed potatoes that nobody ate to make her focaccia and it was really tall and really airy and just like your husband said ,where the tomatoes are it’s very soft and moist and that is yummy. My favorite pizza is focaccia. Simple with the tomatoes and the oregano and the rosemary and a little salt! I don’t make focaccia quite as often as I would like either, but to watch you eat it and enjoy it and appreciate it is some thing I can recall from my youth when my mom used to make it for us homemade. Thank you for a beautiful video.
Thank you for this video Kylie and Marzia! I was getting closer and closer to the screen as you and Guido were eating the focaccia, as if I could have a taste!😉 I have to say, missing my Mother and grandmother's, aunts and grandfather, as they were the best cooks- (especially the pizza and focaccia!) missing them all a little more today, as they fed us with such amazing food throughout my life. Their passion was to feed their families, the love they felt for us was infused in the food, every bite, every taste, from our Italian heritage and beautiful passionate tradition of cooking!🥰
Such a lovely video Kylie and your neighbor is such a delight! I also love getting my hands in the dough when making any type of bread, I think it adds love. Thank you for bringing a smile to my day, as always!
Ladies it might amuse you to know that your language - the Italian language, is so beautiful to listen to that I forget to read the subtitles. Kylie, your episodes are always a feast for the eyes! My spirits are lifted! Thank you! Alla prossima!
Thank you for a wonderful recipe. We have tried it and it was absolutely wonderful. Crispy and soft at the same time. Even next day it was delicious! Grazie signora Marzia! If there is more bread/pasta, anything from this wonderful woman, we would grately appreciate it! This recipe will be passed down the line! Absolutely amazing! Thank you from bottom of my heart for bringing back taste of my childhood from Italian part of Croatia now to America. Grazie mille
My mouth has been watering for the whole 39 minutes! What a treat to watch the two of you enjoying each other. This is exactly what I needed after a crazy political, head spinning day in America! As soon as I saw your video posting I knew it was going to be good. Also happy to see homegrown and local ingredients. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This may be my favorite of all of your videos! It was so natural and raw, and the pure joy on your face from that focaccia ❤ was priceless. I am a bread maker and was so inspired. I cannot try wait to put together this formula in my own kitchen, and hopefully bring the same kind of joy to those I share it with. Last, but not least it was so lovely how well you enter twined such a lovely Italian lesson as well. Grazie mille Kylie! 😘💃🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻😋
If I could “like” this 1000 times, I would! The whole episode was absolutely delicious, Kylie! The filming, the bread, you ladies, the conversation, the bread making lesson, all of it fantastic. I felt like I was right there with you all, and I soooo wish that I was as I would have loved to eat those beautiful focaccias and sipped Guido’s crisp white wine! Love from Canada 🇨🇦 😘
A masterpiece, Marzia is a fantastic baker. So great to see you both eating it, bread like this cannot harm anyone! And so well done for making her the plum cheesecake as a thank you.
This is one of the sweetest and most charming videos I have ever seen on UA-cam- grande tecnice e posso anche praticare il mio italiano :) I make a lot of focaccia and I love every second of it. This video is where I see myself in the near future-in Italy baking focaccia outside and drinking a nice cool glass of pinot grigio. UA-cam needs to get a LOVE button!
Gosh, I think i died & went to heaven! That Love, time, patience, passion, happiness.. I could see it while she carefully folded & created something magnificent ❤
This video reminded me of an italian lady that lived next door to where I worked they owned the service station run by another company whenever she saw me at work late after dinner she would bring me meals and snacks. You could smell that italian food from my workplace
ohh this filled my heart with immense joy! i loved every minute and i can’t wait to try this, i feel now it’s a defining life experience i MUST have😂 love and bread put together, oh, that’s what life is about💛 thank you Kylie! thank you Marzia for sharing your passion and process!
W O W !! Fantastico! Congratulations Kylie & Marzia, on such a brilliant episode. 💃🏻💃🏻My husband is the breadmaker in our family, but your video makes me want to get my hands in & have a go! And OMG, I'm wishing I was there at your "tasting"! Another delightful & beautifully crafted episode, Kylie. The breadmaking tips & advice are clear & confidence inspiring. Thanks once more.🍕🍅🫓🫒🍞👍💕🎥😍 Love from Oz. xx
What a wonderful tutorial on making such a beautiful end product! It takes time and practice to perfect this art. Wonderful to see you both enjoying these beautiful breads. Love this type of videos.❤❤
marzia is so talented. what a lovely video - i watched all the way to the end while having a lazy sunday morning waiting for my partner to come back from the bakery. i also appreciate all the crunchy asmr sounds from guido. thank you!
I loved this video! These breads look wonderful and those tomatoes are beautiful! I would love to hear more about how she cares for liquid starter. Or even see how she makes the focaccia from her starter. ❤❤❤
@@KylieFlavell LOL! I’m not at all surprised! I mean you did say I think last Christmas you made some sweets to give as gifts? Maybe? but you guys and your parents ate it all in one sitting. I can definitely relate! 😋 So many times when I watch you make things I swear it seems like I can smell and sometimes taste it! And I’m always drooling! 😍
Perfecto! This was so enjoyable and informational - delicious! Kylie, you're full of humility and always bring out the best in your guests. Hope you're on the mend.
Brava Mariza! Thanks for your wonderful display of bread making. I too make breads and focaccia. I completely agree with you that the process of working with dough is very relaxing, almost meditative. I always worry when making bread that I am too "liberal" with the recipe as the quantities of ingredients varies with weather, humidity, etc. Knowing you use your eyes and hands to make adjustments to each batch depending on the environment gives me confidence to do the same.
It would be wonderful to have neighbors like Marzia! Thank you for sharing this (the tips too). I know it was a challenge getting this published! Buon fine settimana!
Thank you for watching! This episode was a little delayed because of technical issues with the footage, Ferragosto, and Gianfranco and I being sick this week with the flu. Hoping you will enjoy this slow-paced Italian cooking lesson, especially those of you learning Italian.
Ingredients:
4g brewer’s yeast
1/2 teaspoon sugar
55g water
approx 100g 0 flour (soft wheat)
300g semolina (durum wheat)
300g 0 flour (soft wheat)
400g water (+ 20g extra to dissolve salt)
3 teaspoons salt
approx 30g olive oil
*equal parts water and oil with 2 teaspoons salt for emulsion
cherry tomatoes
rosemary or oregano
Hi ..I love ur culture...plz tell me where I can meet you?
Thank you for providing the details!!😮. With Hunt and Peck typei😊ng it takes me Soo much longer ❤😊😊😊!!!
@@ayesha4272 lol....like THAT'S going to happen....be realistic
I'm sick at the moment as well off work too up set tummy must be getting better I'm hungry now looks so delicious or should I say yummy for my tummy ❤ and doesn't look too hard to make but I doubt it turns out quite as good just have a feeling
@@laylawright9659Ame😊n to Foccchia!!!❤❤❤
I am a baker. I make bread, focaccia and pizza dough in an Italian owned pizzeria. We are more commercial baking but I love to see how much more hands on this is with the dough. I would love to be there right now with you ladies making this so fresh and with such natural ingredients. It's funny I do this all day and still can't get enough with watching it.
Oh wow! I’m sure you could add so much more wisdom to this lesson. So pleased to know you enjoyed it.
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What a lovely comment
Per favore. Apri una pizzeria qui a Katy ovest di Houston. We need italian here in katy Texas ❤
I bet, as a baker, you don't play with your hair when you're making bread or pastries.... do you. Maybe you can explain to Ms Flavell why we don't play with our hair around food.
So much better watching the process than reading a book . Thank you and more Italian to understand xxx please say thank you to your neighbour xxx
Thank you Kylie for introducing us to your lovely neighbor and showing us this wonderful focaccia recipe!!!
I love this. I must be the only Canadian 🇨🇦 Because Manitoba is the name of one of our provinces. I have been watching for a while. Thank you ❤
I'm a Canadian, born in Italy. Live in B.C. I know that Manitoba is in Canada. God Bless Canada 🇨🇦
Born in Canada....Ontario Thunder Bay.....moved to California as a baby...live with a Roman...so Italian food is made and loved!
I live in Newfoundland & Labrador!
This is a MASTERPIECE ... what a wonderful baker, an Italian national treasure .... I could almost smell the aromas, the rhyme and artful connection with ingredients are a pure joy to watch. Both of you should open a bakery 🙏🙏
Yes on the property..lovely video..I wish I could reach into my cell and grab some to eat❤loved this cooking video..feel better yall..❤❤🎉😊
Ok NOW I have respect for focaccia and master craftswoman Mariza!
Beautiful segment, thank you Kylie.
I never knew that tip about putting it in the oven WITH THE LIGHT ON. 🙌 thank you!
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful neighbor! Thank you, Marzia for sharing your focaccia cooking lesson with us! That crunch has my mouth watering. 🙂
Thank you so much for having Marzia show us bread lovers how to make a great Italian focaccia! Absolutely lovely demonstration -- I even learned some beautiful Italian while watching and listening to you two speak! ❤🥰
Oh Kylie, I was drooling by the end of that. It was great to hear the 'crunch' as you ate it and clearly you and Guido were both in focaccia heaven. I loved the way you had laid out the table as well; you have such an eye for making everything beautiful and for all the Italian. Do hope you are feeling better now and thank you again for another fabulous video. I am sure Marzia enjoyed your baking too!
Thank you so much, Ann. It’s so lovely when someone like you appreciates all the details. 🥰
So true, the colors, the sounds, the beauty of the objects and the angles shot make all the difference. True artistry!
I think Guido hit the proverbial "nail on the head" about bread being made with little yeast.....not blowing up in your stomach!!!...I live in the United States and can't eat bread and other grains, due to asthma.....it looks sooo delicious!!!.....and the sound.....heavenly!!!....love how Italians feel about simple ingredients, bit always the best, and or freshest!!!....wish I could have a bite.....can smell it from here.....thank your neighbor for her time and effort, but most of all her love of bread making!!!....
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Thank you for our weekly visit to Tuscany! Well done(focaccia and video)🙏
I really liked it when Guido so elegantly and kindly offered the figs to the lady, so generous and attentive. ❤
Oh, what a nice Tuscan accent; from Florence I guess.
Wonderful focaccia, a masterpiece.
I hope you and Gianfranco are completely recovered now!
As a Canadian wheat farmer, it is exciting to se Manitoba wheat being sold as flour in Italy!!! We grow hard red spring wheat,which is high in protein,(gluten), and especially good for bread.
I’ve been ordering mantoba flour from Italy when I should be ordering it from Canada 😂😂
Most Neapolitan pizzeria in Italy and abroad use Manitoba flour in the flours mix for their dough
@@chiclettThe protein content will be at least 13 g.
They sell it in Slovenia too and I love making bread or pizza with Manitoba flour.
So interesting! My parents moved from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Los Angeles in the late 1950s. I have to try this flour!
Oh my gosh. I'm in awe 😮. It's such a blessing to have a neighbor like her. It's salivating time. Just beautiful
Kylie Please do more cooking and baking shows with this wonderful friend. You two work so well together and a compliment to each other. Thanks for sharing. Maybe special holidays in Tuscany like Christmas.
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‘I’m smelling that rosemary 😂’ wonderful work ladies. 👏👏👏👏
My son and I wanted to make some bread during his visit from Australia (I live in the south of France). Our starter was not cooperating so we tried Marzia's focaccia recipe instead. It turned out great! The pre-ferment really helped with the flavor, structure, and color and the salted water oil was a good tip.
I sorted out the instructions and sent them to him to try when he returned home. As Marzia said, you can use what you have on hand as long as the protein content of the flours are the same. (Semolina has 13g and Italian 0 has about 10g protein).
Here is the recipe I sent.
Italian Focaccia (with pre-ferment and 70% hydration)
Ingredients
For pre-ferment:
•4g fresh brewer’s yeast (2-3g dried yeast, not instant rise)
•1/2 teaspoon sugar (2.6g granulated white or raw)
•55g water (warm room temp)
•100g 0 Manitoba (14g protein) flour
For dough:
•300g semolina (durum wheat, 13g protein)
•300g 0 flour (soft wheat, 10-11g protein)
•400g water (+ 20g extra to dissolve salt)
•3 teaspoons salt
•approx 30g olive oil
For salt/oil wash:
•equal parts water and oil with (guessing 6 tablespoons of each).
•2 teaspoons salt (11g)
cherry tomatoes
rosemary or oregano
Steps
Make pre-ferment:
In a bowl add yeast and sugar mix well with water. Add flour until dough just loses stickiness and can be kneaded and formed into a ball. Cut cross into dough ball. Cover and let rise for 30 to 40 minutes until doubled (it will spread and soften). In colder months you can aid the rise by placing in an oven or microwave with the light on (26-27C, 78-80F).
Make dough:
Add 300g finely milled semolina or bread flour and 300g soft wheat flour (10g protein) to the pre-ferment and knead them together in the bowl until well blended. (you can choose to add an additional 2-3g dried yeast if you want a quicker proof in cooler weather).
Measure 420g warm room temp water and begin by adding 300 g to the flour. Mix by hand. Add the rest of the water reserving 20g to dissolve the salt. Add the salted water.
Mix the very wet dough by hand until it starts to come together. Then knead in the bowl by pulling the dough toward the center for 2 minutes.
Add 20-30g of oil and knead into very wet dough for 5 minutes (stretch and folds).
Every 20-30 minutes repeat the kneading process. Do this three times until the dough is very elastic when stretched and doesn't break when pulled. When it's smooth and comes away from the bottom you can stop this process.
Cover tightly and let rise in warm place for 1 hour. The dough should be soft and light and full of bubbles.
Shaping and Rise:
You can divide dough in half then into 10 parts to make 10 focaccine. Pinch cut end under and roll on counter or board until smooth. Place on parchment lined sheet pan 3 inches apart. Cover with tea towel and let rise for 1 hour. (If your oven is smaller use two sheets).
The other half can be shaped into a round boule and placed into a parchment lined round or square cake pan. You can cut 15 pear, grape or cherry tomatoes in half and press into dough cut side up. Cover and let rise 1 hour.
You can make a sheet pan of focaccia buy picking up all of the dough and letting it hang and stretch until it is a rectangle. Place in an oiled or parchment lined full sheet pan. Gently push from the middle to the outside rim of pan. If it springs back don't fret, just get it close and it will rest and soften during the rise.
Finishing:
Dissolve the salt into the water, then add the oil.
Press dimples into the focaccine and brush with salt/water wash. Sprinkle with oregano or finely chopped rosemary.
Brush top of cake pan focaccia with salt/water wash. Sprinkle with oregano.
Press dimples into the focaccia and brush with salt/water wash. Sprinkle with oregano or finely chopped rosemary.
Baking:
Preheat oven to 220C, 425F (top bottom heat) for 1 hour. When you put in bread lower to 200C.
Bake focaccine for 10-15 minutes.
Bake Focaccia for 20-25 minutes, 10 minutes on the lower third and 10 minutes on the upper third.
Remove to wire rack to cool.
Notes:
The pre-ferment gives the dough strength, structure, and taste. The Manitoba (14g protein) flour helps it develop gluten to support the large air bubbles. You can substitute another high protein flour (like strong bread flour) for the semolina (13g protein) and Manitoba (14g protein) flour.
North American All-purpose flour is higher in protein (11.7g to 12g) than softer Italian 0 and 00, and French flour at 10g. Adjust accordingly to keep it light.
Make sure you bake in a preheated oven. For a crisp bottom use lower third or place sheet pan on bread stone.
Thanks for writing the recipe down. ❤
Magnifico!!!!!!! Thank you, Kylie and your beautiful neighbor.
I have never enjoyed a video more!!! I was transported to the Tuscan countyside, you were making my favourite -simple homemade yeast bread, I could understand almost all the Italian...i felt immersed in an Italian experience...smells, tastes and sounds. Thank you,,,, to you and your friend...Grazie Mille!
Thank you Moira! I’m so happy you enjoyed it so much. 😊
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Amazing episode as usually..beautiful, interesting lesson..Thank You both..pressing like button is not enough to express how much I loved the episode..❤❤❤❤
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Marzia has this distinctive florentine accent which I adore! I was born north of Lucca, so I feel very much at home listening to her.
Thanks for the video, because actually, I didn't know how focaccia was being made.
Good morning Kylie! This one was special for me. I have a bakery (with my husband), in a little town in Belgium. Your friend is right when it comes to home baking and professional baking. We are lucky to be still able to do things the old fashion way, with 60-70 years old machines (the ones sold today would never hold for such a long time). I still enjoy home baking even though I can eat bread every single day. Much love!
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Ciao Kylie! I can't express how much I enjoyed this video! Loved watching Marzia make the dough and the conversation in Italian, which is my first language. It makes me miss my family in Italy even more. The focaccia looks so amazing! I will need to follow Marzia instruction and try it here. Thank you again for this beautiful video.
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Food for our soul. The family, the food, the views, your love of life. Such an inspiration. Sending thanks and now I must learn to bake.
I loved this episode. I also make my own bread from my own starter. I understand what Marzia means when she says she finds it relaxing! Thank you!
You had me at focaccia. I smashed the like button so fast once I saw the title. 😆🍕
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Oh my goodness...that all looked so delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Everything looked divine and that cheesecake was beautiful and a lovely gift to your neighbour. How wonderful this baking was for all of us. Makes me hungry to watch.
Just the joy you get from watching authentic Italian cooking is worth it.
Please have her show us how to make her bread! Wow looks amazing!❤
OH MY GOD. I am going to watch this on repeat. I'm learning italian and I'm just going to keep listening to this over and over. This was incredible. Please open a cooking school
😍 wow Kylie, I loved this one❣️ so glad you recovered to files what a gem. I think the thing I love the most is the community spirit and paying cheesecake for bread, great trade, bravo bellissima ❤Michelle 🇦🇺
Yes, that’s what I love about living here too! There are always these little trades going on every week among the people who live around us. We offer our produce from the fruit trees and vegetable garden and the sheep farmer next door gives us free eggs. Then we deliver our compost to his chickens for their food. And so on and so on.
@@KylieFlavell we’re a bit the same in our little area on the Sunshine Coast hinterland, i bake cakes, cookies & sweet treats, the front neighbour makes preserves and the back neighbour does smoked meats and we look after each others 2 & 4 legged kids which is good for a fifo wife like me with 6 furkids. 😂
Marzia, è un piacere di conoscerla. Grazie da Texas come sempre ❤
You are so fortunate to have such a wonderful neighbour.
Oh my gosh, I don’t have words!! All of my senses are on overload! What a lovely lady Marzia is and what a treat to watch her make those yummy treats. I used to make my grandmother’s bread and cinnamon rolls from scratch and it truly is a labor of love.
Thank you Kylie, that was beautiful!!
Love from Mary in Southern California 💗
How fortunate to have such a talented neighbor! I could almost smell the bread and rosemary! It was a delight to hear her process in knowing when to add what. ♥️
Wonderful! It brings the Italian language to life and so helpful with the translation (it must've taken you ages to transcribe). What a fantastic film. She is an incredible lady. Thank you Kylie - so inspirational. The weather in England isn't quite as warm as Tuscany so the focaccia will take longer to rise. Much love to you all xx
YES! Subtitles take so long to translate and type out and then try to change the phrase to make it more concise so it’s not a long paragraph to read too quickly. 🤪👩🏼💻
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Really appreciate all your hard work, dedication and tenacity - my Italian is coming on !!@@KylieFlavell
Such crunch! Absolutely marvelous seeing everything slowly coming together. How blessed you are to have such a sweetheart for neighbor! Best of health, Kylie to you and Gianfranco.
Okay you are so adorable. You can see all your excitement about everything ,in the way that you're eating the For coca. It is Adorable.
This was so good! I was a Master Baker and Confectioner for 45 years including 17 years in higher education because I LOVED my trade and wanted to know the science behind the interaction of ingredients. Bread making above all else is a love, a passion, a science and a skill. I honour this lady, she knows her science and has such passion. Guido being sound 'crunch' enginneer was just PERFECT. 🤣💕 Thanks Kylie, this was ezpecially fabulous xxxc
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Such a wonderful video Kylie and so worth the wait! This is the perfect sort of video for me from you: beautifully shot, informative and involves cooking! I also feel inspired to have a go myself! Grazie 🇮🇹❤
Wonderful timing I just made my focaccia dough, I like to ferment it for 12 hours in the refrigerator overnight. I’ll bake it tomorrow night. I’m taking it to a pool party on Saturday! It’s nice to see how an Italian baker makes her focaccia. Looks great😊
Excellent! I learned so many tips for improving my bread making. Thank you for inviting Marzia over! I'll now include focaccia in my agenda! I was shocked to hear about the USA protein flour! A surprise indeed. Blessings from Texas!
Cool episode Kylie. I really enjoyed your guest.
Ohhh my Goodness this was such and enjoyable video Kylie.
The dough was beautiful and the finished product simple amazing to look at too.
The joy you and Guido was lovely to see and that crunch something else. I could imagine how good it tasted.
Loved hearing GianFranco squeal in the background and see his cute little legs and feet.
The cheesecake was a nice thank you too.
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful Italian friend while she showed all how to make the dough. Much love to you all. ❤❤❤❤❤
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I enjoyed this episode so very much. Not just the Master Class-style instructional video but Guido’s pure enthusiasm and instinctive ASMR contributions, your joy at Focaccia consumption, and your dual parenting exclamation when Gianfranco joined in on the experience. We really felt like we were sitting at the table with your family.
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JENNIFER YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL ADORABLE SEDUCTIVE RAVISHING SEXY CAPTIVATING AND PASSIONATE YOUR BEAUTY IS PHENOMENAL IF MICHELANGELO WERE ALIVE TODAY YOU WOULD BE HIS MUSE LET ME FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU MARCVOLPE ❤
Hello from Manitoba! Lovely to see our Name brand on the flour used in Italy! Love focaccia bread! Yummy! Love this video, thanks for sharing this!❤😊
Thanks for showing the whole process. I will make focaccia and bread soon. I am soooo hungry after watching the video😋
What a delightful treat to see Marzia bake the focaccias and you helping her. She is so relaxed and has a poetic way of describing the ingredients and how nature grows the wild herbs. You truly have a wonderful neighbor and friend! You and Guido were in absolute heaven while you ate the bread. Believe it or not, I too could taste the bread.
Oh my gosh Kylie, this was so enjoyable to watch. I have to say, I don’t remember my mom taking quite as long to do her focaccia, but she also used our leftover mashed potatoes that nobody ate to make her focaccia and it was really tall and really airy and just like your husband said ,where the tomatoes are it’s very soft and moist and that is yummy. My favorite pizza is focaccia. Simple with the tomatoes and the oregano and the rosemary and a little salt! I don’t make focaccia quite as often as I would like either, but to watch you eat it and enjoy it and appreciate it is some thing I can recall from my youth when my mom used to make it for us homemade. Thank you for a beautiful video.
Thank you for this video Kylie and Marzia! I was getting closer and closer to the screen as you and Guido were eating the focaccia, as if I could have a taste!😉 I have to say, missing my Mother and grandmother's, aunts and grandfather, as they were the best cooks- (especially the pizza and focaccia!) missing them all a little more today, as they fed us with such amazing food throughout my life. Their passion was to feed their families, the love they felt for us was infused in the food, every bite, every taste, from our Italian heritage and beautiful passionate tradition of cooking!🥰
How lovely! A grandmother’s cooking is the best.
What a precious gift to learn from a master bread maker...Someday you will pass on these amazing skills to the next generation! Bravissimo!
Amazing...what a great neighbour and interesting episode this week. As always, such a pleasure to watch you create.
Such a lovely video Kylie and your neighbor is such a delight! I also love getting my hands in the dough when making any type of bread, I think it adds love. Thank you for bringing a smile to my day, as always!
Thank you Kylie! I cannot wait to try it myself. Watching a master is so helpful! Hoping you will be all feeling better very soon, so sorry.😢
Ladies it might amuse you to know that your language - the Italian language, is so beautiful to listen to that I forget to read the subtitles. Kylie, your episodes are always a feast for the eyes! My spirits are lifted! Thank you! Alla prossima!
Bakers are a special breed. They have the patience of Job. We enjoy your videos. You are the best video artist I have ever seen.
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Making food is definitely my love language so I always appreciate the yummy noises! 😆
Such a pleasure to watch and keep this art of bread making alive !!!
Wow.. drooling the entire time 😊 what a wonderful episode. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience ❤️
Thank you for a wonderful recipe. We have tried it and it was absolutely wonderful. Crispy and soft at the same time. Even next day it was delicious!
Grazie signora Marzia!
If there is more bread/pasta, anything from this wonderful woman, we would grately appreciate it! This recipe will be passed down the line! Absolutely amazing!
Thank you from bottom of my heart for bringing back taste of my childhood from Italian part of Croatia now to America. Grazie mille
Beautiful episode, many thanks to Kylie and your lovely neighbour. Focaccia and cheesecake look delicious ❤
My mouth has been watering for the whole 39 minutes! What a treat to watch the two of you enjoying each other. This is exactly what I needed after a crazy political, head spinning day in America! As soon as I saw your video posting I knew it was going to be good. Also happy to see homegrown and local ingredients. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This may be my favorite of all of your videos! It was so natural and raw, and the pure joy on your face from that focaccia ❤ was priceless. I am a bread maker and was so inspired. I cannot try wait to put together this formula in my own kitchen, and hopefully bring the same kind of joy to those I share it with.
Last, but not least it was so lovely how well you enter twined such a lovely Italian lesson as well.
Grazie mille Kylie! 😘💃🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻😋
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Thank you so much!!! The subtitles take me so long to translate and write out so I’m happy you enjoyed it all. 🙏🏼
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What an enjoyable video. Thanks to you and your neighbor. It was so fun to watch you and Guido enjoy every bite! 😋😋
I love the pacing and relaxing, inviting nature of your videos. Thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us!
If I could “like” this 1000 times, I would! The whole episode was absolutely delicious, Kylie! The filming, the bread, you ladies, the conversation, the bread making lesson, all of it fantastic. I felt like I was right there with you all, and I soooo wish that I was as I would have loved to eat those beautiful focaccias and sipped Guido’s crisp white wine! Love from Canada 🇨🇦 😘
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I have a new found respect for focaccia bread…..such a process. Made with love ❤
Amazing the end result but so much work to get it to this level have to be a true devotion
A masterpiece, Marzia is a fantastic baker.
So great to see you both eating it, bread like this cannot harm anyone! And so well done for making her the plum cheesecake as a thank you.
Riscalda il cuore in questi tempi travagliati.
That was such a fun and wholesome episode. Thank you.
This is one of the sweetest and most charming videos I have ever seen on UA-cam- grande tecnice e posso anche praticare il mio italiano :) I make a lot of focaccia and I love every second of it. This video is where I see myself in the near future-in Italy baking focaccia outside and drinking a nice cool glass of pinot grigio. UA-cam needs to get a LOVE button!
Gosh, I think i died & went to heaven! That Love, time, patience, passion, happiness.. I could see it while she carefully folded & created something magnificent ❤
Bravissima! Grazie mille a Mariza. Si bella focaccia. Ora ce la farò!
This video reminded me of an italian lady that lived next door to where I worked they owned the service station run by another company whenever she saw me at work late after dinner she would bring me meals and snacks. You could smell that italian food from my workplace
Wow, she puts a lot of love into the process of making the dough. I bet it was delicious!
I had the impression, that your baby wanted to try the delicious baked delicacies you were enjoying! Guido was getting into the good food mood❤
For me, cooking is an art and this is a masterpiece. 👍
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My goodness that focaccia looked amazing as did your cheesecake Kylie ❤lovely vlog thankyou hope Gianfranco is feeling better x
ohh this filled my heart with immense joy! i loved every minute and i can’t wait to try this, i feel now it’s a defining life experience i MUST have😂 love and bread put together, oh, that’s what life is about💛
thank you Kylie! thank you Marzia for sharing your passion and process!
W O W !! Fantastico! Congratulations Kylie & Marzia, on such a brilliant episode. 💃🏻💃🏻My husband is the breadmaker in our family, but your video makes me want to get my hands in & have a go! And OMG, I'm wishing I was there at your "tasting"! Another delightful & beautifully crafted episode, Kylie. The breadmaking tips & advice are clear & confidence inspiring. Thanks once more.🍕🍅🫓🫒🍞👍💕🎥😍 Love from Oz. xx
It all looked so delicious! Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant episode....loved it and will probably be the closest I'll ever get to homemade focaccia in Tuscany...Thank you...Charleen from Arizona
Patti from Des Moines, Iowa !!!
Thank you, Merci, Grazie!! for sharing a passion from your wonderful neighbor...Passion in bread/food unites us!! 😍
What a wonderful tutorial on making such a beautiful end product! It takes time and practice to perfect this art.
Wonderful to see you both enjoying these beautiful breads.
Love this type of videos.❤❤
marzia is so talented. what a lovely video - i watched all the way to the end while having a lazy sunday morning waiting for my partner to come back from the bakery. i also appreciate all the crunchy asmr sounds from guido. thank you!
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Thank you so much! This was a beautiful vlog!!
Oh my word you are having us salivating as we watch. Wonderful baking and the plum cheesecake looks amazing too. Another great vlog thank you.
I loved this video! These breads look wonderful and those tomatoes are beautiful! I would love to hear more about how she cares for liquid starter. Or even see how she makes the focaccia from her starter. ❤❤❤
Che piacere seguire una maestra impastare come da bambina ricordo mia nonna in cucina! Thank you Kylie for sharing.
Makes me want to be your neighbor! ❤ I was drooling watching you eat and could almost taste and smell it! OMG!😊
It was so good - we literally ate all of it in one sitting. 😍🙊
@@KylieFlavell LOL! I’m not at all surprised! I mean you did say I think last Christmas you made some sweets to give as gifts? Maybe? but you guys and your parents ate it all in one sitting. I can definitely relate! 😋 So many times when I watch you make things I swear it seems like I can smell and sometimes taste it! And I’m always drooling! 😍
Perfecto! This was so enjoyable and informational - delicious! Kylie, you're full of humility and always bring out the best in your guests. Hope you're on the mend.
What a kind comment. Thank you. 🥰
Wonderous! Delightful!
Heaven on earth!
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Brava Mariza! Thanks for your wonderful display of bread making. I too make breads and focaccia. I completely agree with you that the process of working with dough is very relaxing, almost meditative. I always worry when making bread that I am too "liberal" with the recipe as the quantities of ingredients varies with weather, humidity, etc. Knowing you use your eyes and hands to make adjustments to each batch depending on the environment gives me confidence to do the same.
My mouth was watering by only hearing the crunchiness of the bread!! 😄😄
It would be wonderful to have neighbors like Marzia! Thank you for sharing this (the tips too). I know it was a challenge getting this published! Buon fine settimana!