In Calabria, making bread at home is still a tradition where families would spend an entire day preparing, kneading, shaping, and baking bread in a wood-fired oven. The process involved gathering wood for the oven, mixing flour, yeast, salt, and water into dough, letting the dough rise, and then baking the shaped loaves and pastries for over an hour until cooked through. After baking, the family would decide which bread to keep for future meals and which to share with others, as well as which to dry out into hard bread that could be stored for a long time without refrigeration.