Faluche is a traditional bread in the

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region of northern France and the Tournai 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

brie Brie (; ) is a soft cow's-milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated (roughly corresponding to the modern ''département'' of Seine-et-Marne). It is pale in color with a slight grayish tinge under a rind of white mo ...

cheese. Faluche is made with white flour,

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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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External links

* The entry to Faluche (pain) in the French Wikipedia {{French bread French breads Belgian cuisine Walloon culture Nord-Pas-de-Calais Hainaut (province) Tournai