Recipe: St. Joseph's Bread, Rustic Italian Bread, and Sicilian Breads (re: heavy Italian Bread)

Hi Jim,

Below are links to two recipes found in our Featured Cookbooks section for you to try:

St. Joseph's Bread (Pane di San Giuseppe)
..."an egg bread with a crumb that has a tighter, denser weave, allowing the dough to be used for fancy bread-sculpting designs"...
From: Cooking With Grace: A Step-By-Step Course in Authentic Italian Cooking by Grace Pilato

Rustic Bread
..."Many traditional breads in Italy taste so good because they are leavened with a biga; a spongy mixture made from flour, water, and some commercial yeast. This sponge ferments at room temperature on its own, for a few hours or as long as two days"...
From: Cooking Up and Italian Life by Sharon Sanders

and from The Artisan, section: Sicilian Bread Suite, "A ratio of one-third to one-half semolina can be combined with unbleached all-purpose flour, producing a bread denser in texture." Sicilian Bread Recipes

I hope that's a help! Please share any good recipes you try with us.

Happy Baking,

Betsy
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