Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat Italian bread traditionally flavored with olive oil and salt and often topped with herbs, onions, or other items.
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- noun uncountable A
flat bread similar in style, composition, and texture to modernpizza doughs and topped withherbs ,cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour ,oil ,water ,sugar ,salt andyeast . - noun countable A
sandwich made with this type of bread.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anonymous the focaccia is a pretty solid choice, great portion, decent price, always satisfying
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The focaccia is unusual in that it incorporates wine into the dough, nicely complementing the flavor of the grape halves that stud the finished bread.
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Undaunted, I set out to make focaccia from a recipe I had earmarked previously, from Nick Malgeri's book "A Baker's Tour".
A Miss and a Surprise Hit Sarah 2009
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The focaccia is unusual in that it incorporates wine into the dough, nicely complementing the flavor of the grape halves that stud the finished bread.
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Undaunted, I set out to make focaccia from a recipe I had earmarked previously, from Nick Malgeri's book "A Baker's Tour".
Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah 2009
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Caramelized Onion Focaccia our focaccia is made with potatoes in the
shipping artichokes 2007
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My local pizza place when I was a kid served something they called focaccia pizza, and it looked a lot like this, only with a much thicker crust.
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In fact, the word focaccia in Italian does indicate both a savory flat bread and a sweet leavened cake.
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In fact, the word focaccia in Italian does indicate both a savory flat bread and a sweet leavened cake.
Almond-Orange Cake (Focaccia alla Portoghese) « Baking History 2008
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Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
fbharjo commented on the word focaccia
a hearthful (hearth-cake etym.) meal
April 6, 2011
sarra commented on the word focaccia
confused!
April 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word focaccia
Not to be confused with those cheap faux caccia breads.
April 6, 2011
bilby commented on the word focaccia
fo real?
April 6, 2011