[Sca-cooks] Re: timbales

[Vincent Cuenca]

>Torta de Lasagne, from the 14th c. Neapolitan "Liber De Coquina"  is a dish
>lined with lasagne then filled with raviolis, eggs, cheese etc in layers.
>It's then decorated with a dough sculpture, but the basic dish is there.
>
>The Torta Parmesana present in at least 3 different 14th c. Italian texts
>lines a pot with "paste" and then fills it with layers of pastas, meat,
>eggs
>etc.  See PPCs 59 & 61 for a discussion of this dish and it's development
>into modern timbales  (though I don't care for the article's claim that the
>dish goes back to Babylonian times)
This sounds a lot like the "timpano" served in "The Big Night". Found it in
the comedy section of the video store, but it wasn't all that funny.  Good,
but not funny.  The dish is basically a pot lined with pasta dough and then
filled with cheese, meatballs, hand-rolled ziti, and sauce and baked.  It
was round, golden-brown, and caused death threats on the chef. (Direct
quote: "That was so good I should kill you!")  I saw that thing turned out
of the pot and I started drooling.

Eden, do you have the texts/translations?  These sound absolutely fantastic.

Vicente

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