The tomato boxes were ordered and the whole family organized an assembly line: cleaning the tomatoes, washing the bottles, preparing the bain-marie, choosing the tomatoes for sauce and those to be kept whole, peeled.

This is what the scent of hill battering tomatoes reminds us, because in addition to the choice of tomatoes - sweet quality, hand-picked and processed within 24 hours - in these glass jars there is the traditional wisdom, the slowness, and the patience necessary to enhance the taste of tomatoes without spoiling their qualities, which is why there is no citric acid in these hill datterino but only tomatoes, water, salt.