MAKING ROSEMARY FOCACCIA BREAD – Easy Home Made Bread Recipe #MoatCottageHomesteading

hi guys it’s Alisa at my cottage homesitting today I’m making focaccia breadfocaccia bread is my favorite bread tomake because it’s just so easyfirst up you’re going to need a pound ofstone-ground flour so it’s it’s a plainflourso that I’m going to add a teaspoon ofyeast add in a quarter teaspoon of seasalt and I’m going to mix it through soit’s fairly evenly disbursed throughoutthe flour make you well in the centerand then add in a cup of warm water nowbecause you’re using yeast you want thewater to be warm to activate the yeastbut not too hot that it’s going to killthe yeast and start mixingthis is where I like to get my handsinvolvedyou want to work the dough until it’s alittle bit sticky elastic and smooth andthe good thing about this for Kasia isit’s fairly forgiving I’ve often notneeded it enough because it really it’scauses a lot of pain for me to be doingthis and it still turned out good in allthose occasions so it’s fairly forgivingI’m going to leave it at that becausethat’s as much as my arms will let me dobut you could go a little bit furtherthan that with your kneading into yourempty bowl add half a cup ofextra-virgin olive oil and you doughinto that and fold the oil into thedough I’ve mixed most of that oil inwe’ve still got some of the oil in thebowl which is what you want and nowwe’re going to let it proof for twohours so that’s basically letting it sitin a warm location for two hours andwe’re going to tuck it in and make itnice and cozy by putting a tea towelover the topit’s been two hours I’ve got the ovenheating to 180 Celsius which is 360Fahrenheitand the bread has risen with the doughgive it another mix get some of that oilin that’s nicebeautiful that oil has absorbed in nowgot the air out of the dough and it’sjust beautiful feels nice and soft I’musing a 20 centimeter square cake tinand I’m just going to pop the dough onand squash it in and the good thingabout this is it doesn’t need to beperfectly flat because you want thefingerprints in it so that the oil thatwe add on top can sit in those littlewellness I’ll put some more extra virginolive oil on top followed by some seasalt and we’re topping it off with somerosemarynow when the roads moving flour I stilluse it with the flowers as well and itlooks gorgeous but today we’re justusing the leaves because it’s not flowerseason but the flowers are quite good toeat toosmells beautiful as you can imagine andI washed the rosary while the dough wasrising so it’s been washed and driedI’ll leave the recipe in the descriptionbelow so you can make it yourselfI’ll just squish the rosemary leavesinto the dough just a little bit to holdthem in place nicely there’s any gapsI’m just adding a little bit more inthose spots so no one misses out[Music]and now goes into the hot oven ready tobe caughtI love to serve my focaccia with a herbcream cheese which is in my nasturtiumvideo if you want to learn how to makethat now for the taste testit’s so good I may ever make regularbread anymore this has got so muchflavor and goodness mmm it’s way quickerthan using a bread machine and you don’tneed any fancy tools to make it if youhave any questions or comments pleaseleave them below and remember to likeand share our videos on other socialmedia platforms and remember to catch upon some of our other videos as well ifyou haven’t seen them all and if you’renot subscribed why notthanks for watching I’ll see you nexttime