How to make friselle from the Salento

The full recipe: the pre-ferment, the exact proportions, the double baking that makes them properly hard, and the Salento way of soaking them with the sponza frise.

The full recipe: the pre-ferment, the exact proportions, the double baking that makes them properly hard, and the Salento way of soaking them with the sponza frise.

Baked twice until hard, cut with a thread, and wetted before eating. Three seconds, no more.

The first bread in Europe to get a DOP, in 2003. Remilled durum semolina, natural sourdough, wood-fired oven — and a rulebook that even specifies the water.