Italian Bread Recipes are Essential to the Italian Lifestyle

Italians have a way of life which is unique to other European countries. Firstly Italians are sociable creatures, not stuck up and pretentious. Italians speak loudly and gesticulate. They are generally uninhibited. Italians enjoy dinners after 9 pm and sit together at large tables where they eat delicious food and talk about everything under the sun including Italian Bread Recipes.

Italians like to linger longer at the table; so soaking the bread into the remains of a delicious sauce is a worthy reason for staying on, chatting and drinking wine. The bread is of course fresh out of the oven and quite irresistible. The bread which arrives on the table is naturally a conversation piece and the cook knows that his / her cooking skills will be judged by the bread.

A popular bread amongst Italians is a type of milk bread. It's baked with milk, water, flour and olive oil. It has a round shape, with an indented cross in the middle – it looks like a large hot cross bun. The surface is browned and crisped and the inside is white as snow. The texture is airy. Don't even try to compare this to your standard commercial loaf of white bread.

Here is a tried and tested Italian Bread Recipe

You will require the following Ingredients:

200 g Water

100 g Milk

25 g Extra Virgin Olive Oil

20 g Sugar

20 g Salt

350 g Flour 00

200 g Wheat Flour

A cube of yeast

First you mix the warm water, milk, sugar and yeast.

Add the olive oil, salt and flour and mix again until the dough has a firm consistency.

Leave the dough to rise for 2 hours.

After the 2 hours are up place the dough onto a baking tray and mould into a round shape.

Cut a cross into the surface of the dough.

Leave to rise for another 30 minutes.

Place the bread into an oven that has been preheated at a temperature of 210 degrees Celsius.

Leave the bread to bake for One and a half hours.

If you prefer whole wheat bread then replace the flour with whole wheat flour.

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Alissa Mattei owns Casa Montecucco which is one of the smallest hotels in the world, never mind Italy! She has a has an olive plantation surrounding her hotel and is a leading authority on olives. She now offers a fun cooking school where you can learn to master the skills of Italian cooking. To find out more visit http://www.casamontecucco.com

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