"Ancient Recipes"

Ingredients:

Baking powder, wheat flour, salt, bran.

Procedure:

mix the wheat flour with the baking powder, lukewarm water and salt till you obtain a firm dough. In past time people worked this bread in the shape of hearts, garlands, plaits, dolls, little staircases. It was adorned with small pieces of dough having the shape of flowers and leaves. When bread rose, it was dipped in boiling water for few seconds, was taken out with a large skimmer and laid on a level surface strewn with bran. Finally it was put into a wood-burning oven. The result was amazing! This bread was beautiful and shiny, like a work of a good sculptor.

Ingredients:

honey, toasted and minced almonds, small cubes of baked dough, minced orange rind, cinnamon.

Procedure:

boil the honey and add the other ingredients, mixing energetically with a wood spoon. When the mixture is quite solid, shed it on a table previously wet to avoid that it could stick. Roll out with a rolling pin till you obtain a sheet of about 1 centimetre. Before it gets cold, cut it in rhombi and put them on trays.

Ingredients:

1 kg. of wheat flour, 400 gr. of sugar, 250 gr. of lard, 5 eggs, 400 gr. of currants, minced almonds and nuts (as one likes), grated lemon rind.

Procedure:

mix the wheat flour with eggs and sugar, then add the other ingredients. Take off small pieces of dough, flatten them with the hands or a rolling-pin to obtain rhombi. Lay them on a baking-pan and put them into the oven, till they become golden-brown. When they cool down decorate with white-icing.

Dough ingredients:

1kg. of wheat flour, 2 hg. of lard, 1 hg. of sugar.

Stuffing:

fig jam, orange rind, lemon juice, minced almonds and nuts, a pinch of cinnamon.

Procedure:

knead the wheat flour, the lard and the sugar, spread the dough and get circles from it. Put some stuffing on these circles and cover them with other dough. Put them into the oven till they become golden-brown. Finally decorate with icing.

Dough ingredients:

1 Kg of wheat flour, 200 gr. of lard, sugar.

Stuffing:

1 Kg. of honey, 500 gr. of bran or grated bread, orange and mandarin rind, minced almonds and nuts, cinnamon.

Procedure:

boil the honey for few minutes and, when it boils, add bran or grated bread, orange and mandarin rind, almonds, nuts and cinnamon. So you obtain a mixture not too solid. Then you make some small sticks and fold them in circles. Lay the dough and put this stuffing on it. Cut the dough in the shape of the sticks, giving the shape you like and put them into the oven.

Ingredients:

small pieces of swine fat (obtained melting the lard), wheat flour, sugar, currants, spices, brewer’s yeast, orange rind.

Procedure:

mix the wheat flour with warm salt water and brewer’s yeast. Add the currants, grated orange rind, a pinch of spices and sugar. When all the ingredients amalgamate, make some rhombi and make them rise. Finally put them into a hot oven.

Ingredients:

cheese or cottage cheese, eggs, salt, sugar, wheat flour, a pinch of spices, orange rind.

Stuffing:

mix the grated cheese with egg yolks, sugar, salt and wheat flour till the dough become thick, add grated orange rind and a pinch of spices.

Procedure:

knead the dough and then cut some circles, put the stuffing on them and pinch the sides to obtain the traditional shape of the ‘casciatini’.

Ingredients:

1 kg. of wheat flour, 200 gr. of lard, 200 gr. of sugar, 3 eggs.

Procedure:

mix the ingredients, make little sticks and plait them or cut the dough in rhombi. Fry them in boiling oil. Finally, put them in a saucepan with honey and orange rind and make them boil for few minutes.

Ingredients:

salted legs, tail, snout and ears of swine, water, sausages, currants, black pepper (sugar as one likes).

Procedure:

wash the pieces of swine and boil them. When they are overdone, add sliced sausages, currants and pepper and keep on cooking. In ancient time people add sugar. Serve cool.

Ingredients:

bread (French loaves or rolls), broth (mutton or veal), grated and sliced cheese, spices, parsley and cinnamon.

Procedure:

slice the bread and, in a baking-pan, lay alternatively a bed of bread and one of grated and sliced cheese mixed with spices, cinnamon and minced parsley. When the baking-pan is full, pour the broth and check with a fork if the bread is soaked. Put into the oven for 1 hour till it becomes golden-brown.

Ingredients:

wheat flour, boiling salt water.

Procedure:

mix the wheat flour with the water, make some long cylinders and cut them in pieces two or three centimetres long. Smash these small cubes with the thumb, using the back of a grater of a basket. They are cooked and served like the spaghetti with tomato sauce.

Ingredients:

cream, wheat flour, water and salt.

Procedure:

boil the cream with a pinch of salt, add the wheat flour and cook with moderate flame. When the oil oozes from it, pour some water and cook for about 10 minutes, keep on stirring.

Ingredients:

Procedure:

slice the cheese and mix it with the cream and salt and amalgamate with moderate flame. Add some flour and cook stirring till the oil parts from the cream. Serve with hot honey.