SC - Zampone

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> 
> Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> 
> > The filling of a zampone is a basic cotechino "boiling" sausage, only
> > encased in the boned-out pig's trotter instead of a gut casing.
> > Cotechino (at least modern cotechino) isn't much different from
> > cervelato or saveloy, for which we have period Italian and German
> > (Austrian?) recipes. Whether anything like a zampone was made, I
> > couldn't say, but it's not impossible, I suppose.
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> 
> Boiled sausage? Where would you put if when you drive out onto the ice
> during the half? I'd think it would be a problem if you spilled any, and
> it would stick to the skate blades....

Hah! HAH!!!!

Half, you say? HALF??? What half??? Half-time in a figure-skating
tournament? A hockey game has three periods, ma'am!
> 
> ...uh, _zampone_ you say?

Adamantius, fan of the team with both the most goals scored _and_ the
most goals scored against, in the NHL, and foaming at the mouth while
making yet another batch of emergency Christmas cookies between 1 and 2
AM. Bah, humbug! Are there no prisons? 
>            ^
> 
> Oh.
> 
> _Never mind_....  :-D
> 
> 'Lainie
> (who's hair looks suspiciously like Rosanne Rosannadanna today...)

Well, 'Lainie, it just goes to show you...

It's aaaalways something... If it's not one thing, it's another. If it's
not a giant pig's foot stuffed with cooked salami smoothing out the ice
during halftime, it's a cookie press at %$#@* 1:24 AM...

Adamantius, realizing with a blinding flash that there are probably now
people on the Cooks' List who don't remember Roseanne Roseannadanna
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com