A Story about Tuscan Bread: My mother Anna always tells me how incredibly delicious the bread prepared by her grandmother was; and from the enthusiastic way in which she speaks, I can only imagine how wonderful and tasty it really was. The bread was made even more savory as it was cooked in old wood ovens! Bread was prepared only once a week, but it was so good and genuine that it kept well for many days. Women worked all ingredients by hand on the madia or kneading trough; a rustic piece of furniture.
Is salt necessary in bread making? - Now I’ll show you the bread recipe I’ve learned from my mother, and although the actual Tuscan bread recipe is without any salt in it, I put just a pinch of it in my dough, as my mother does.

The traditional and authentic Tuscan Bread Recipe is totally made with no salt and requires many hours of leavening. NOTE: to have a good bread you need to use only high quality products, starting from the flour, that’s extremely important!