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Why do italians have salted and unsalted bread?

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Bread in Tuscany is not salted because of tradition. In the “old days” salt was very expensive. It was so expensive that sometimes, even Roman soldiers were paid in salt. Why salt? read more

Unsalted bread is typical of Tuscany and Emilia. It is called pane tonto (silly bread), as salt is synonym of intelligence in Italy. read more

VARIATION 1 (CUPCAKE P): Use unsalted butter and use salt listed in recipe. VARIATION 2 (CUPCAKE O): Use salted butter and use salt listed in recipe. VARIATION 3 (CUPCAKE R): Use salted butter but eliminated salt listed in recipe. I chose the Yellow Cake and Big-Batch Butter Frosting from the Good Housekeeping Great Baking cookbook for the experiment. read more

Chefs, cookbook authors, Instagram baking influencers, even our Test Kitchen Professionals are always espousing the necessity of unsalted butter. It gives you more control over the flavor profile, they say. You don’t want to add extra salt, they preach. But then why does salted butter even exist, you wonder to yourself in the dairy aisle. read more

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