Fresh bread, pizza, cakes, ciambellini all'anice, and much more: a simple bakery is a fascinating place!

Focacce, cookies, pastries, cakes, fresh olive oil bread, brown bread, and much more, these are many of the delicious and genuine products that await you in Sabina. They are made only from traditional antique receipts passed on from one generation to the next. These are the products that appear on the tables of the inhabitants of Sabina, fresh and original with the taste of yonder years.

Bread is obtained from the fermentation, leavening and baking in an oven of the dough made with the flour of various cereals and water, following different methods and often enriched with other typical regional ingredients.  

It occupies a primary position in the Mediterranean diet, so much so that the very word can indicate either the specific food stuff or in general terms the word nourishment and not only in the physical sense! In ancient times the word was used to indicate all those foods that could be consumed with bread, proof enough that it was the basis on which all meals were based on.

In Sabine cuisine bread is a fundamental ingredient that recalls the flavors of the past, especially those breads baked in traditional wood burring ovens.

Sabine bakeries do not limit their production to bread of various kinds but also make typical local cookies, bread sticks, brown bread, milk biscuits, Bishop Bread, olive oil bread, panettoni, rosette, pan giallo, bread with olives and much more.

The Pizza di Pasqua - Easter Cake, deserves a special mention as it is a typical central Italian gastronomic tradition, especially in the province of Viterbo and Rieti. It is the main element of all Easter breakfasts in Sabina, it is similar to a Panettone - Italian Christmas Cake, but is eaten with salami and lonza, both cold cuts pork products and with Easter eggs.

It's a tasty and genuine product that house wives, in the little boroughs of the Province of Rieti still prepare following an antique method, challenging each other to see who produces the best. Despite the fact that it is made of simple ingredients like eggs, extra virgin olive oil and flour it requires much work and great care in the various phases of its production.