Bread is one of the most widespread and consumed foods, in Italy as in the world, but it is also one of the foods of which there are more variations, in the ingredients as in their quantity, from preparation to form.The basic ingredients consist of flour, water, salt and yeast (but some can be replaced with others, we move on to a series of very rare combinations such as pistachio, olives, cereals, orange peel, lemon, chestnuts and much more.Then the magic, the leavening, here we can discuss at length why so many leavening are different from each other, strange but true and give the possibility of enrichment and almost infinite processing times and largely linked to resources and culinary traditions for hundreds of years.In this book I will show you how to prepare ancient Italian bread recipes step by step exactly as it was used in the ancient medieval tradition