This recipe for Harvest Bread is from the talented Beth at the screen porch.
This is her version of “Schiacciata co luva”. “A grape bread traditionally seen all over Italy in September on into October”. It was fun to experience a tradition that I had never heard of and the bread was unusual and delicious!
I used my bread machine for the kneading & first rising. I am starting to replace white flours with whole grain ones in my recipes so for one cup of the flour, I substituted 1/2 c white whole wheat flour and 1/2 c sprouted spelt flour. Since making this, I have used more and more spelt and I think all spelt would be just fine! Also, the recipe didn’t specify how much olive oil so I used 3 T in the dough. I think 2 T would probably be better because of the cheese - that said, I could have used more olive oil on the top.
DH likes grapes & focaccia so he loved this bread. We are not always fans of honey but a little drizzle was perfect for this bread...and as Beth suggested, I think some gorgonzola sprinkled on top would be amazing.
Thank you, Beth, for a wonderful recipe! Here is the link: http://thescreenporch.blogspot.com/2010/10/harvest-bread.html
This looks wonderful! I've made a grape focaccia from Bon Appetit that I loved...but I never knew it was a tradition! (There's something wonderful about warm squishy grapes, I think!)
ReplyDeleteI'm sooo excited that you tried this. Isn't it fun with all those wonderful warm grapes!? Thanks for linking the blog. That was really sweet of you:)B
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