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Fouace nantaise · Nantes
A dry, faintly sweet enriched bread baked in a six-pointed star, made in the Nantes vineyard since the 19th century and designed from the start to be torn apart and dipped into a glass of Muscadet.
The fouace comes from La Haie-Fouassière, southeast of Nantes in the middle of the Muscadet vineyard, and it was a growers' invention: a way to make money after two bad harvests, and a thing to eat while tasting the wine. It worked well enough that the village took the name of the bread during the Revolution, and before 1914 a settlement of about 1,200 people supported some 80 fouacier producers. The dough is flour, eggs, butter, sugar and yeast, shaped into a round and slashed into six points so it bakes into a star that pulls apart into horns. It is drier and less sweet than a brioche, which is what you want if you are going to dunk it.
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