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If it's what I'm thinking it is (Italian bread with cooked sausage inside) we used to call it sausage bread. The only place I remember being able to purchase it was from Valente bakery in Fairview, NJ. I think the only sold it on special occasions.
It's not the same thing although I do love Valente's sausage bread...yummm...
My sister and I grew up with this "pizza bread" in Jersey City (we're talking more than 50 years ago!). My dad would pick it up fresh from Italian bakeries in downtown Jersey City -- usually the Second Street Bakery. That bakery still exists. Today the bread also makes occasional appearances at local Italian delis, like at Buon Appetito -- in Bayonne (on Broadway) and in Jersey City (on Grove Street). It's a plain bread, with no herbs or tomato on it, and although it doesn't taste heavy it has the strength to hold a good sandwich without tearing. But as kids, we loved to eat it fresh with just butter.
I grew up eating pizza bread made by five bakeries in Jersey City. We used it for everthing including making a home style pizza made in the broiler. A semolina version is sold by Vitamia in Passaic. You can find them on the web. I have been told by bakers that it is the same dough used for the long Italian bread but baked round with a hole. I have started to try to make it as I live in Virginia where no one, including bakers, has knowledge of it. Any recipes?
I grew up eating pizza bread made by five bakeries in Jersey City. We used it for everthing including making a home style pizza made in the broiler. A semolina version is sold by Vitamia in Passaic. You can find them on the web. I have been told by bakers that it is the same dough used for the long Italian bread but baked round with a hole. I have started to try to make it as I live in Virginia where no one, including bakers, has knowledge of it. Any recipes?
Let me know your recipe as I use a ciabatta dough recipe and it is similar. I don't bake bread much in the summer but I bake Ciabatta as it only takes 30mins. I do love that pizza bread though.
hey i lived in bloomfield nj back in 60 and 70s and almost every week had an italian hot dog from scappys on the avenue or ting a lings in newark. i miss those hot dogs stands by branch brook park too on bloomfield ave every saturday nite we went out to clubs aftewards branch brook park hot dog cart baby. life could not get any better then that. todays kids dont know what they are missing
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