Les Fougasse

category : French Recipes | Country : France

   

Posted : July 27, 2010 Cooking time : 120 minutes Serve : 20 person

Ingredients:

• 20 grams of yeast bread.
• 125 ml warm water.
• 600 grams of wheat flour.
• 150 grams caster sugar.
• 3 eggs,  whites and yolks separated.
• 8 tablespoons olive oil.
• Salt to taste.
• 2 tablespoons orange flower water immersion.
• 1 piece of lemon peel, grated.
• 125 ml water.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Mix the yeast with 125 ml of warm water, stir well. Pour the yeast water into 100 grams of flour and stir well. Let it stand for two hours so the dough expands two-fold.
2. Put the mixture in a large container, then add olive oil, egg whites, salt, orange flower water, orange peel, lemon and water. Stir well. Ulen dough until well blended and smooth. Form of flat bread dough and sprinkle flour on its surface. Cover dough tightly with a damp cloth, let stand for 3 hours.
3. Remove the dough, roll with wooden rollers until the thickness of 2 cm. Cut a rectangle 4 cm x 7 cm and an oval shape. Puncture with a knife as many as three holes.
4. Set the dough on a baking sheet that has been smeared with oil around it. Let stand for 1 hour. Rub surface of dough with beaten egg yolk. Bake the bread in the oven for 15 minutes.