See also: Fougasse (homonymy)

The fougasse , or fougace , is a Pain of Provence. It rather flat, is often carved with the preparation to form several branches.
There exists a bread sweetened homonymous speciality of the Aubrac aveyronnais and lozérien. The Rouergue kept the name of Fouace to indicate this fougace of Aubrac.

Receipt

Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 10 G of Yeast of baker
• 500 G of white Flour or ordinary north wind
• 1 spoonful with soup of Olive oil
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 spoonful with table salt coffee
• 1/2 Lemon-yellow green

Preparation

1. To prepare the Leaven first of all: to put in a bowl a handle of flour, to add yeast and sufficient water to have a smooth pulp. To let rest 1 hour.
2. To add salt to the remainder of flour and to pour it in heap on the scheme of work (one can as a preliminary slightly heat the flour in the furnace, it will be easier to work). To make a well in the medium and to pour the leaven, to add tepid water there and the green lemon juice to obtain a flexible paste then.
3. To knead the mixture during good ten minutes, to put the paste obtained in a large farinée pot, to cover with a cloth and to let raise until it doubled of volume. When it is well inflated, to cut it into four with a well sharpened knife.
4. To reform a ball and to make it raise again. To divide again in two portions and to flatten them on the scheme of work. To notch into 9 or 10 2 cm length quite clear incisions, laid out in oblique (3d' a side, 3 of the other and 3 in the medium). To draw aside these openings slightly (as buttonholes) to prevent that they are not closed again with cooking.
5. To preheat the furnace with 220°C. To pose the fougasses on quite hot sheet of the furnace. To slip a water bowl into the furnace and to charge the fougasses. To let cook during 30 good minutes until they are well gilded and quite crusty.

Anecdote

• the name of this dish of Provence finds its origin in Latin " panic grass focacius" , a flat bread makes cook on a hearth or under ashes of a fire.

See too

• Pump oil, serves