Now a 5 minute rest in a bed of flour to allow the gluten in the dough to relax. The flour just keeps the focaccia dough from sticking to everything.
Next into the mixer for kneading.
Focaccia uses a really wet dough. It’s 7 parts water to 10 parts flour, by weight (or “70% hydration” using bread lingo). The result is a loose dough that doesn’t really form into a ball like many other, dryer doughs meant for loaf bread.
Next the olive oil and water. (Don’t worry. The oil was weighed. I didn’t just eyeball it.) #focaccia
So what do you do when you have leftover herb oil from making focaccia? Make more focaccia!
Step1: Weigh the dry ingredients and mix them.
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