Flammkuchen or French Pizza

Calling this a French Pizza is very bad and the French will hate me.

Flammkuchen has a very thin and crusty dough. It is topped with seasoned creme fraiche and lardons and onions. 

I added a bit of grated Emmenthal to get rid of the open package of cheese.

This recipe is from the East of France, the Alsace. When bread was baked in old times, regulating the heat was a bit critical. Checking the tempetature with something less worthy than bread was a good idea. 

The bakers has a snack to eat while the bread was in the oven. 

I used a very good fresh sheet of dough. Ham bits and small cut onion rings were added ln top of the creme fraiche. 

You could stop now, but adding cheese is s very good idea.