Kyle's Italian Food Blog ....Recipe Click

Roberto Giannini writes,
I wanted to send you a recipe for Ribollita followed by generations of my Tuscan ancestors. Though my Father was from Bologna, my family is Tuscan, from Massa Marittima in the Province of Grosseto more recently, and Terranova Bracciolini in the Province of Arezzo going further back. This recipe is more than 200 years old, and I had to recopy it onto a fresh sheet because the original, written by my ancestor Teresa Stiatti at the end of the 1700s, is crumbling with age. In any case, here is what I have: Ingredients for 8 (people always gather when there's ribollita):
Prep Time: 30 minutes