Italian Quick Breads
Italian quick breads are the loaves you make on a Saturday morning when the weather changes — torta salata with rosemary, the pumpkin loaf from the Alps, the chestnut-flour castagnaccio that is older than Italy.
Featured italian quick breads recipes
- Torta salata, rosemary and parmigiano — Iris · Tuscany · A savory baking-powder cake. Aperitivo loaf. Sliced into squares.
- Castagnaccio, chestnut-flour cake — Iris · Tuscany · Chestnut flour, water, olive oil, pine nuts, rosemary. Older than Italy.
- Plumcake, the Italian breakfast loaf — Iris · Lombardy · A pound-cake batter — Italians took the name and made it lighter.
- Pane di zucca, pumpkin loaf — Iris · Trentino · Roasted pumpkin folded into a baking-powder loaf. Late-October bread.
- Ciambellone, the breakfast ring — Iris · Rome · A Roman bundt-style breakfast cake. Lemon zest. Olive oil if you ask.
- Torta di mais, polenta breakfast loaf — Iris · Veneto · Coarse polenta, olive oil, lemon. Slice for breakfast all week.
- Pane alle noci, walnut quick loaf — Iris · Lombardy · A baking-powder version of the cheese-board walnut bread.
- Torta pere e cioccolato — Iris · Piedmont · Pears and chocolate in a Piemontese baking-powder cake.
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