Faluche is a traditional bread in the

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region of northern France and the

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region of southern Belgium. Faluche is a pale white bread that is soft and fairly dense. It is neither a round nor flat bread but looks somewhat like a small deflated soccer ball. It may be eaten hot at breakfast with butter and jam or with cream cheese and smoked salmon or later as a snack with butter and brown sugar or with

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cheese. Faluche is made with white

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, water, a little salt and butter. In a bakery, faluche was often baked as the oven was just heating up before the main baking.

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{{French cuisine French breads Belgian breads Culture of Wallonia Nord-Pas-de-Calais Hainaut (province) Tournai