And you will see Italians sprinkle salt on their un-salted bread when you go to Tuscany. . . it always amazed me when I first saw it as a kid, having grown up on salty Irish butter & bread
Spread salted butter on it . . . . a delightful treat. Really. Interesting note, pierino, about the tax on salt. Didn't know that. I came to love unsalted bread when I lived in Florence. As plevee suggests, it's perfect with salume, salted olive oil, etc. Yummmm. ;o)
Breadcrumbs, croutons, good ideas. Add salt to them? Sure, it will help the flavor. If there is any kind of fat in the bread, though, use them up quite soon, as it tends to go rancid before too long after it has been exposed to the heat of the oven. Salt is necessary in bread, not only for flavor, but because it rations the amount of water that is available to yeast for reproduction. Bread doughs made without salt tend to undergo a China Syndrome sort of runaway reproduction if unchecked by salt. They can overproof rapidly, which compromises the structure of the bread.
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