Description
Altamura bread is still produced today following the ancient recipe handed down from generation to generation by farmers and shepherds, since the Middle Ages.
Unchanged over the centuries are the ingredients: flour of durum wheat, sourdough, salt, and water, as well as the processing process, divided into five stages: kneading, forming, leavening, shaping, baking in the wood oven.
The quality of Apulian Bread of Altamura D.O.P. is guaranteed by the Consortium of Protection, invested with the functions of control, promotion and enhancement of the PDO, as well as of supervision against any form of counterfeiting.
By monitoring all stages of production, starting from the origin of the raw material, the Consortium guarantees the consumer the traceability of the product.
