Welcome to Forno Bravo Bread. In addition to pizzas and roasting, your brick pizza oven bakes wonderful bread. This section of Forno Bravo Cooking is dedicated to making great bread at home in your brick pizza oven. It is divided into two sections: techniques and brick oven bread recipes.
Techniques
- Hearth Bread Baking (Sequence) — This sequence includes many techniques for wood fired bread making and delicious Hearth Bread recipes
- Making Flatbreads
- Biga — A popular pre-ferment to improve the taste and texture of your dough
- Whole Wheat Poolish —An alternate, wetter pre-ferment to improve your dough
- Steam in a brick oven
- Steam in a conventional oven
Traditional Hearth Bread Recipes
Flatbread Recipes
- Cecina — chickpea flatbread/chickpea pizza
- Focaccia — Risen flatbread baked in a pan
- Schiaciatta — Tuscan flatbread between pizza and focaccia
- Schiaciatta with a Sourdough Starter — A flavorful variation on the basic recipe
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