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In breve

The dish in short

  • Soft wheat flour, milk and water, lard, yeast and salt, kneaded by hand until very soft, then left to double, at least 2 hours at about 25 °C.
  • Rolled just under 1 cm thick and cut into rounds 8 cm across.
  • Cooked in a well-heated tigelliera greased with lardo, over a low flame, 4 minutes on each side.
  • Split while hot and filled with cunza (lardo, garlic and rosemary chopped fine with a mezzaluna) and grated Parmigiano Reggiano.
  • The fireplace dough was flour, water and salt alone; yeast and a little milk came with iron plates and the tigelliera.

Il video, Pavullo nel Frignano, Emilia-Romagna

Crescentine

The video: Modenese mountain breads cooked in the tigelliera, with cunza

The small round breads of the Modenese Apennines, a soft dough of flour, milk, water, lard and yeast cooked in a hot tigelliera, then split and filled with cunza, lardo pounded with garlic and rosemary, under grated Parmigiano Reggiano; one of Emilia-Romagna's traditional food products. The video is an illustration; the recipe has the exact quantities, temperatures and times.

Serves
6
Hands-on
59 min
Cooking
54 min
Video
11 s

Passo dopo passo

The steps, in photos

The video shows the main moments; these are all 16 steps, as in the recipe.

Photos of steps 1, 2, 3
1Dissolve the yeast in the milk and water2Stir in the sugar3Make a well of flour
Photos of steps 4, 5, 6
4Work in the lard and flour with a fork5Knead by hand for about 10 minutes6Leave it to double
Photos of steps 7, 8, 9
7Make the cunza8Heat the tigelliera, 15 minutes on each side9Roll the dough into a round sheet
Photos of steps 10, 11, 12
10Cut out the crescentine11Knead the scraps and let them rest12Grease the moulds with lardo
Photos of steps 13, 14, 15
13Cook the first round, 4 minutes on each side14Cook the rest of the first cut15Roll, cut and cook the scraps
Photos of steps 16
16Split, fill and serve hot

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