Name: Italian Bread Sticks (Grissini)
Yield: Makes 15 sticks
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: sesame seeds or poppy seeds for topping (optional); 250 ml/9 fl oz tepid water; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 450 g/1 lb unbleached white bread flour; 15 g/½ oz fresh yeast; 2 teaspoons salt

Preparation info

Makes
15 sticks

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Making Bread at Home

By Tom Jaine

Published 2005

About

Home-made grissini put to shame any manufactured ones. They have taste for one. Eating them reminds us what a good idea they are as a plaything for the hands and mouth before a meal: ‘they make so pleasant a noise between the teeth,’ was the comment of one 19th century novelist on discovering them in Piedmont, their original north Italian home.